diff --git a/src/common/ssl.c b/src/common/ssl.c
index 2e34a1e5..de1d946b 100644
--- a/src/common/ssl.c
+++ b/src/common/ssl.c
@@ -106,15 +106,6 @@ _SSL_context_init (void (*info_cb_func))
 	/* used in SSL_connect(), SSL_accept() */
 	SSL_CTX_set_info_callback (ctx, info_cb_func);
 
-#ifdef WIN32
-	/* under win32, OpenSSL needs to be seeded with some randomness */
-	for (i = 0; i < 128; i++)
-	{
-		r = rand ();
-		RAND_seed ((unsigned char *)&r, sizeof (r));
-	}
-#endif
-
 	return(ctx);
 }