diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 7662f37133..dc1d2eb807 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1841,6 +1841,7 @@ MATH_FUNCS="
 SYSTEM_FUNCS="
     access
     aligned_malloc
+    arc4random
     clock_gettime
     closesocket
     CommandLineToArgvW
@@ -5232,6 +5233,7 @@ check_func  ${malloc_prefix}memalign            && enable memalign
 check_func  ${malloc_prefix}posix_memalign      && enable posix_memalign
 
 check_func  access
+check_func  arc4random
 check_func_headers time.h clock_gettime || { check_func_headers time.h clock_gettime -lrt && add_extralibs -lrt && LIBRT="-lrt"; }
 check_func  fcntl
 check_func  fork
diff --git a/libavutil/random_seed.c b/libavutil/random_seed.c
index 8aa8c3879b..205a636f92 100644
--- a/libavutil/random_seed.c
+++ b/libavutil/random_seed.c
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ uint32_t av_get_random_seed(void)
     }
 #endif
 
+#if HAVE_ARC4RANDOM
+    return arc4random();
+#endif
+
     if (read_random(&seed, "/dev/urandom") == sizeof(seed))
         return seed;
     if (read_random(&seed, "/dev/random")  == sizeof(seed))