diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cc8513d80..4a571aa88 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
      simplify session close: no more delayed session_close, no more 
      blocking wait() calls.
  - (bal) removed two unsed headers in openbsd-compat/bsd-misc.c 
+ - (bal) seed_init() and seed_rng() required in ssh-keyscan.c
 
 20011007
  - (bal) ssh-copy-id corrected permissions for .ssh/ and authorized_keys.
@@ -6694,4 +6695,4 @@
  - Wrote replacements for strlcpy and mkdtemp
  - Released 1.0pre1
 
-$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.1599 2001/10/10 20:38:55 mouring Exp $
+$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.1600 2001/10/10 20:45:43 mouring Exp $
diff --git a/ssh-keyscan.c b/ssh-keyscan.c
index c46ce633f..520491392 100644
--- a/ssh-keyscan.c
+++ b/ssh-keyscan.c
@@ -686,6 +686,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 	extern char *optarg;
 
 	__progname = get_progname(argv[0]);
+	init_rng();
+	seed_rng();
 	TAILQ_INIT(&tq);
 
 	if (argc <= 1)