> I am not sure I understand what you are saying You called the intel h/w rng "excellent." I believe consensus is "we don't know." The code you showed does exactly the right thing: don't rely on the h/w RNG directly, but use it as an entropy source. /r$ -- Zolera Systems, Securing web services (XML, SOAP, Signatures, Encryption) http://www.zolera.com ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]