There are several solutions to the lack of /dev/random and /dev/urandom but they are not yet in the default installation.

* Marcus' work can be downloaded. [random.tar.gz](ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/random.tar.gz) (identical to <http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/random-64.tar.gz>?)
  * [A patch](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-August/010248.html) that was probably already incorporated from August 14, 2002.
  * Clemet [reported success](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2002-October/006690.html) October 11, 2002 and Marcus [described some](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/help-hurd/2002-October/006695.html) of the internals.

* [egd](http://egd.sourceforge.net/) - Entropy Gathering Daemon (here's the [RFP](http://bugs.debian.org/145498))

* [OSKit Entropy Patch](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2003-January/011155.html) from Derek Davies - Jan 2003.
  * Note that this patch can (and should) be used with [this patch](ftp://flux.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/mail/html/oskit-users/msg01570.html).