diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/security/provider/AES128CounterRNGFast.scala b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/security/provider/AES128CounterRNGFast.scala
index c355f5a548..1c58c4f1d0 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/security/provider/AES128CounterRNGFast.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/security/provider/AES128CounterRNGFast.scala
@@ -3,14 +3,14 @@
  */
 package akka.security.provider
 
-import org.uncommons.maths.random.{ AESCounterRNG, SecureRandomSeedGenerator }
+import org.uncommons.maths.random.{ AESCounterRNG, DefaultSeedGenerator }
 import java.security.SecureRandom
 
 /**
  * Internal API
  */
 class AES128CounterRNGFast extends java.security.SecureRandomSpi {
-  private val rng = new AESCounterRNG(new SecureRandomSeedGenerator())
+  private val rng = new AESCounterRNG()
 
   /**
    * This is managed internally only
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ class AES128CounterRNGFast extends java.security.SecureRandomSpi {
    * @param numBytes the number of seed bytes to generate.
    * @return the seed bytes.
    */
-  override protected def engineGenerateSeed(numBytes: Int): Array[Byte] = (new SecureRandom).generateSeed(numBytes)
+  override protected def engineGenerateSeed(numBytes: Int): Array[Byte] = DefaultSeedGenerator.getInstance.generateSeed(numBytes)
 }
 
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/security/provider/AES128CounterRNGSecure.scala b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/security/provider/AES128CounterRNGSecure.scala
index 846476cc2d..60beecded7 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/security/provider/AES128CounterRNGSecure.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/security/provider/AES128CounterRNGSecure.scala
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
  */
 package akka.security.provider
 
-import org.uncommons.maths.random.{ AESCounterRNG, DefaultSeedGenerator }
+import org.uncommons.maths.random.{ AESCounterRNG, SecureRandomSeedGenerator }
 
 /**
  * Internal API
  */
 class AES128CounterRNGSecure extends java.security.SecureRandomSpi {
-  private val rng = new AESCounterRNG()
+  private val rng = new AESCounterRNG(new SecureRandomSeedGenerator())
 
   /**
    * This is managed internally only
@@ -30,6 +30,6 @@ class AES128CounterRNGSecure extends java.security.SecureRandomSpi {
    * @param numBytes the number of seed bytes to generate.
    * @return the seed bytes.
    */
-  override protected def engineGenerateSeed(numBytes: Int): Array[Byte] = DefaultSeedGenerator.getInstance.generateSeed(numBytes)
+  override protected def engineGenerateSeed(numBytes: Int): Array[Byte] = (new SecureRandomSeedGenerator()).generateSeed(numBytes)
 }
 
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/Ticket1978ConfigSpec.scala b/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/Ticket1978ConfigSpec.scala
index 4c39b94087..0a39d20a9a 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/Ticket1978ConfigSpec.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/test/scala/akka/remote/Ticket1978ConfigSpec.scala
@@ -15,12 +15,7 @@ akka {
   actor.provider = "akka.remote.RemoteActorRefProvider"
   remote.netty {
     hostname = localhost
-    port = 12345
-  }
-  actor.deployment {
-    /blub.remote = "akka://remote-sys@localhost:12346"
-    /looker/child.remote = "akka://remote-sys@localhost:12346"
-    /looker/child/grandchild.remote = "akka://RemoteCommunicationSpec@localhost:12345"
+    port = 0
   }
 }
 """) with ImplicitSender with DefaultTimeout {