Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote: >> I don't think the OpenSSH devels really do care about that - there is no discussion whatsoever on the secureshell list or on the devel list. No idea about our upstream, but I don't think so either. << Correct: all that needs to be said was said years ago, by Dr. Robert E. Coveyou, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (now NIST): "The generation of random numbers is to important to be left to chance". Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909