Ok I don't know if I understood your problem correctly, but if you're looking for ways for seeding you can always use current system time, I believe this is pretty much available on all systems.
 
Hope that helps.

"Bibbs, Christopher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ok, here's my problem. I'm using OpenSSL as part of my application, but not
all users have /dev/random (or /dev/urandom) so what's a developer to do? I
don't really want to seed with a constant string as the test apps do, but I
need a source I can count on. Asking my users aren't system administrators
so asking them to install additional software or make system modifications
is out of the question.

Thoughts?



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