diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 17cf8779bd99655e5797c4879d0fd7c649c705c8..3856370bf1c153796faeb26a039a9c7c62543ad7 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #! /bin/sh
-# From configure.ac Revision: 74575 .
+# From configure.ac Revision: 75259 .
 # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
 # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.
 #
@@ -12127,11 +12127,13 @@ _ACEOF
 cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
 cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
 /* end confdefs.h.  */
-#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/types.h> /* for off_t */
+     #include <stdio.h>
 int
 main ()
 {
-return fseeko (stdin, 0, 0) && (fseeko) (stdin, 0, 0);
+int (*fp) (FILE *, off_t, int) = fseeko;
+     return fseeko (stdin, 0, 0) && fp (stdin, 0, 0);
   ;
   return 0;
 }
@@ -12171,11 +12173,13 @@ cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
 cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
 /* end confdefs.h.  */
 #define _LARGEFILE_SOURCE 1
-#include <stdio.h>
+#include <sys/types.h> /* for off_t */
+     #include <stdio.h>
 int
 main ()
 {
-return fseeko (stdin, 0, 0) && (fseeko) (stdin, 0, 0);
+int (*fp) (FILE *, off_t, int) = fseeko;
+     return fseeko (stdin, 0, 0) && fp (stdin, 0, 0);
   ;
   return 0;
 }
@@ -15110,6 +15114,32 @@ fi
 done
 
 
+{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for /dev/urandom" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking for /dev/urandom... $ECHO_C" >&6; }
+if test "${ac_cv_file__dev_urandom+set}" = set; then
+  echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
+else
+  test "$cross_compiling" = yes &&
+  { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: cannot check for file existence when cross compiling" >&5
+echo "$as_me: error: cannot check for file existence when cross compiling" >&2;}
+   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
+if test -r "/dev/urandom"; then
+  ac_cv_file__dev_urandom=yes
+else
+  ac_cv_file__dev_urandom=no
+fi
+fi
+{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_file__dev_urandom" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_cv_file__dev_urandom" >&6; }
+if test $ac_cv_file__dev_urandom = yes; then
+
+cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
+#define HAVE_DEV_URANDOM 1
+_ACEOF
+
+fi
+
+
 
     if test "x${PBX_PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER}" != "x1" -a "${USE_PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER}" != "no"; then
 	{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER in pthread.h" >&5
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 777f9db6b23d56d0c1fadc27a39df0f20b7a4041..0ccfb766099fbe33ddba8a84b8cc856d34d0cec0 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -286,6 +286,8 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([funopen fopencookie])
 # some systems already have gethostbyname_r so we don't need to build ours in main/utils.c
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([gethostbyname_r])
 
+AC_CHECK_FILE(/dev/urandom, AC_DEFINE([HAVE_DEV_URANDOM], 1, [Define to 1 if your system has /dev/urandom.]))
+
 AST_C_DEFINE_CHECK([PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER], [PTHREAD_RWLOCK_INITIALIZER], [pthread.h])
 AST_C_DEFINE_CHECK([PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NP], [PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NP], [pthread.h])
 
diff --git a/include/asterisk/autoconfig.h.in b/include/asterisk/autoconfig.h.in
index 77e30f22a6354786907f706f784aa9d1e3fc7695..94e8449dd610b83d7be272f8a07acd63b8c37134 100644
--- a/include/asterisk/autoconfig.h.in
+++ b/include/asterisk/autoconfig.h.in
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@
 /* Define to indicate the ${CURSES_DESCRIP} library version */
 #undef HAVE_CURSES_VERSION
 
+/* Define to 1 if your system has /dev/urandom. */
+#undef HAVE_DEV_URANDOM
+
 /* Define to 1 if you have the <dirent.h> header file, and it defines `DIR'.
    */
 #undef HAVE_DIRENT_H
diff --git a/include/asterisk/utils.h b/include/asterisk/utils.h
index f9fa0f47e08840a4f241509a4b97dd001de9f262..6f97770d9e6f515ab227cce1cc158ddfc8ae34be 100644
--- a/include/asterisk/utils.h
+++ b/include/asterisk/utils.h
@@ -393,11 +393,7 @@ int ast_pthread_create_detached_stack(pthread_t *thread, pthread_attr_t *attr, v
 */
 char *ast_process_quotes_and_slashes(char *start, char find, char replace_with);
 
-#ifdef linux
-#define ast_random random
-#else
 long int ast_random(void);
-#endif
 
 /*! 
  * \brief free() wrapper
diff --git a/main/utils.c b/main/utils.c
index d719837af6ea7beeda2c3009dcd0de4903d9a651..fd39d52285467d1340d13ce41bdc4730bfe2a654 100644
--- a/main/utils.c
+++ b/main/utils.c
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ ASTERISK_FILE_VERSION(__FILE__, "$Revision$")
 #include <netinet/in.h>
 #include <arpa/inet.h>
 
+#ifdef HAVE_DEV_URANDOM
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#endif
+
 #define AST_API_MODULE		/* ensure that inlinable API functions will be built in lock.h if required */
 #include "asterisk/lock.h"
 #include "asterisk/io.h"
@@ -501,8 +505,15 @@ const char *ast_inet_ntoa(struct in_addr ia)
 	return inet_ntop(AF_INET, &ia, buf, INET_ADDRSTRLEN);
 }
 
+#ifdef HAVE_DEV_URANDOM
+static int dev_urandom_fd;
+#endif
+
 int ast_utils_init(void)
 {
+#ifdef HAVE_DEV_URANDOM
+	dev_urandom_fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
+#endif
 	base64_init();
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -807,19 +818,30 @@ struct timeval ast_tvsub(struct timeval a, struct timeval b)
 
 /*! \brief glibc puts a lock inside random(3), so that the results are thread-safe.
  * BSD libc (and others) do not. */
-#ifndef linux
 
+#ifndef linux
 AST_MUTEX_DEFINE_STATIC(randomlock);
+#endif
 
 long int ast_random(void)
 {
 	long int res;
+#ifdef HAVE_DEV_URANDOM
+	if (dev_urandom_fd >= 0) {
+		int read_res = read(dev_urandom_fd, &res, sizeof(res));
+		if (read_res > 0)
+			return res;
+	}
+#endif
+#ifdef linux
+	res = random();
+#else
 	ast_mutex_lock(&randomlock);
 	res = random();
 	ast_mutex_unlock(&randomlock);
+#endif
 	return res;
 }
-#endif
 
 char *ast_process_quotes_and_slashes(char *start, char find, char replace_with)
 {