I recently installed Red Hat Linux 9 and noticed on the first boot a message about generating ssh host keys. Isn't that a dangerous thing to do on the first boot? Where is the installation going to get enough good entropy so early in its life? Maybe the paranoid thing to do is, as part of configuring a machine, to regenerate those keys once user interaction (or other entropy source) has had time to really stir the Linux entropy pool. -kb
