Just as a random counter-example, Openssl does use that method. But it actually seeds from urandom, rather than random... And fails when forking&#x2F;threading by default. :(<p>But yes, that&#x27;s not common. (more info: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openssl.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Random_Numbers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.openssl.org&#x2F;index.php&#x2F;Random_Numbers</a>)