Re: Random numbers

Things that might help get a handle on such problems:

A standard reference: "Randomness Requirements for Security"
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4086

Well-designed true random number generator using a sound
card or on-board equivalent:
http://www.av8n.com/turbid/paper/turbid.htm

Overview article, partly my writing:
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Random_number

For the average desktop system, random(4) is likely enough.

Typical applications do not require all that much random
material, and most such machines have enough mouse,
keyboard & disk activity to produce it.

Where you need more is on servers that do a lot of crypto
such as a web server with many SSL connections, or on
machines without much random input -- diskless server
that has no keyboard, mouse or user, for example.

For those cases, if you do not have a true RNG in the
chipset, use Turbid (2nd link above).

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