[pycrypto] winrandom alternative (Namely for 64-bit Windows)

[Dwayne C. Litzenberger]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 04:03:33PM -0400, Gregory Taylor wrote:
>As you are probably aware of, PyCrypto tries to download/compile 
>winrandom, which can be a problem for many that lack a compiler. As an 
>alternative for those who can't/won't install winrandom, I put together a 
>ctypes equivalent that doesn't require compilation like the original 
>winrandom. This new module aims to be functionally equivalent in every way 
>to winrandom, but accesses the Windows-specific cryptography library 
>through ctypes rather than a compiled Python C extension module.

Does os.urandom work on Win64?  We could just use that if someone would 
help me with the OS detection (see lib/Crypto/Random/OSRNG/__init__.py).

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