please file a bug at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org and attach the patch
there...:)

Andi Kleen wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> I noticed that nss was not using the urandom device on linux to gather
> entropy for the key generation. This patch fixes it.
>
> -Andi
>
> --- security/nss/lib/util/unix_rand.c-o Tue Jan 30 02:52:47 2001
> +++ security/nss/lib/util/unix_rand.c   Wed Aug 22 06:48:57 2001
> @@ -730,6 +730,7 @@
>      char **cp;
>      char *randfile;
>      char *files[] = {
> +       "/dev/urandom",
>         "/etc/passwd",
>         "/etc/utmp",
>         "/tmp",
> @@ -878,7 +879,7 @@
>             if (bytes == 0) break;
>             RNG_RandomUpdate(buffer, bytes);
>             totalFileBytes += bytes;
> -           if (totalFileBytes > 1024*1024) break;
> +           if (totalFileBytes > 32*1024) break;
>         }
>         fclose(file);
>      }

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