>> "How important is the PRNG seed to the
>> total security of your program ?"
How quickly they forget... :(
Your SSL connections can be broken. Several years ago Netscape used a
poor random seed (like getpid() or'd into the time() or some such), and
Dave Wagner (et al) at Berkeley were able to completely decode the SSL
traffic.
Don't do this. Don't do this. Do not do this.
/r$
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