On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Mitch Adair wrote: > Actually it appears that /dev/urandom does deplete the randomness pool > in Linux at least (and you sortof concede this later in your post I > think.) I will quote a comment from > /usr/src/linux-2.4.19rc1/drivers/char/random.c maybe i'm missing something, but why not pull a PRNG seed from /dev/random? ___________________________ jose nazario, ph.d. jose@monkey.org http://www.monkey.org/~jose/