The seed generation *is* the RNG. What happens later is a PRNG, not an RNG.
An RNG with a poor seed is always a poor RNG.
A.
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Reni G. Eberhard wrote:
> > I was analyzing the RNG routines of OpenSSL, especially
> > those related with Windows environment, RAND_screen seeds
> > the random generator with the contents of the screen. It
> > seems to be a poor RNG.
> > Anybody has a better RNG for Windows?
> >
> > Any ideas, suggestions, or help would be most appreciated.
>
> Do you mean the RNG or the generation of the seed?
> In case of seed there are some techniques to generate
> a good software seed and I've implemented one
> (not in openssl) which has been approved by a "big company".
>
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