diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 8782f8b06f2..90c8ee731da 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ jetty-7.3.1-SNAPSHOT
  + JETTY-1335 HttpClient's SelectConnector clean-up
  + JETTY-1333 HttpClient _timeout and _soTimeout is messed up
  + JETTY-1337 Workname cannot contain '.'
+ + JETTY-1338 Trust default SecureRandom seed
 
 jetty-7.3.0.v20110203 3 February 2011
  + JETTY-1259 NullPointerException in JDBCSessionIdManager when invalidating session (further update)
diff --git a/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/session/AbstractSessionIdManager.java b/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/session/AbstractSessionIdManager.java
index ed4d19ca7e1..d690e5c91cc 100644
--- a/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/session/AbstractSessionIdManager.java
+++ b/jetty-server/src/main/java/org/eclipse/jetty/server/session/AbstractSessionIdManager.java
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ public abstract class AbstractSessionIdManager extends AbstractLifeCycle impleme
                 _weakRandom=true;
             }
         }
-        _random.setSeed(_random.nextLong()^System.currentTimeMillis()^hashCode()^Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory()); 
+        else
+            _random.setSeed(_random.nextLong()^System.currentTimeMillis()^hashCode()^Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory()); 
     }