I didn't not write this. I've given up trying to convince people of the problems with the Linux RNG long ago. http://eprint.iacr.org/2006/086 It's worth mentioning that they said using a simpler RNG would have been better than using the RNG we have now. That's almost insulting. JLC ps. My out-of-date Fortuna RNG page: http://jlcooke.ca/random/ - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/