Scott, While the timing of the -kg keystrokes is 'more' pseudo-random (heh.) than is the obviously repititive nature of your first post you do bring up a valid concern that Im sure someone of the many PRNG people on the list can, and will answer. This particularly ties in with the thread coming in from the previous poster whom refered to the new pgp23a process of -kg. I would think that my typing while entering my pass phrase is *definitely* less random than when I am consciously aware that I am generating a key. (This very awareness of course makes the randomness less random, ugh! where is chaos when you need/want it?) --Matt ______________________________________________________________________________ "This new technology (the printing press) threatened the Crown, which shuddered at the thought of widespread dissemination of works advocating religious heresy and political upheaval. The Crown's solution to the problem was a system of regulation designed to control this "dangerous" art." -From my Copyright Law Text (refrencing the Statute of Anne - the first Copyright Statute) (c)1993 ______________________/___________________________________mjmiski@macc.wisc.edu