People might be interested in a paper I've written on randomness: http://www.apache-ssl.org/randomness.pdf. Comments, as always, are more than welcome. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff