Tor does not support W95

Nick Mathewson nickm at freehaven.net
Thu Aug 18 04:12:08 UTC 2005


On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 11:33:05PM -0400, phobos at rootme.org wrote:
> I'm looking for the actual text from the dos window when running tor.
> Does it really simply say "Cannot start random no. generator"?

Ah, I think I might know what this is, and why it might seem that we
"dropped" w95 support.

We use the CryptGenRandom function to get entropy from windows.  This
function was introduced in win98; to get it in win95, I think you need
OSR2 or later, or a later version of IE.  I'm not sure if this is
what's up in your case, but it might help.

yrs,
-- 
Nick Mathewson
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