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`CryptGenRandom` is a function provided by the Windows Cryptography API (CryptoAPI) that is used to generate cryptographically secure random numbers. This function is essential for applications that require random data for secure operations, such as generating keys for encryption, generating initialization vectors (IVs), or creating nonces.

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