# windows: use ProcessPrng from bcryptprimitives.dll · gitcafe/zig

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Author: Andrew Kelley

Committer: Andrew Kelley

## Message

```
windows: use ProcessPrng from bcryptprimitives.dll

rather than SystemFunction036 from advapi32. This has the advantage that
the code is loaded preemptively, preventing random numbers from
failing when they are needed for the first time on a system under heavy
load.

```

## Parents

- [36044a0e81702954e0ad5d5bd14a8b23929e7db8](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/36044a0e81702954e0ad5d5bd14a8b23929e7db8?format=markdown)

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