diff --git a/examples/hello-world/Makefile b/examples/hello-world/Makefile
index 258d8e9baf..f389bea7ca 100644
--- a/examples/hello-world/Makefile
+++ b/examples/hello-world/Makefile
@@ -15,4 +15,11 @@ DEVELHELP ?= 1
 # Change this to 0 show compiler invocation lines by default:
 QUIET ?= 1

+USEMODULE += xtimer
+USEMODULE += prng_fortuna
+USEMODULE += fortuna_reseed
+USEMODULE += random
+
+CFLAGS=-DFORTUNA_RESEED_INTERVAL_MS=1000
+
 include $(RIOTBASE)/Makefile.include
diff --git a/examples/hello-world/main.c b/examples/hello-world/main.c
index f51bf8c0a0..168cbdcfdc 100644
--- a/examples/hello-world/main.c
+++ b/examples/hello-world/main.c
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
  */

 #include <stdio.h>
+#include "xtimer.h"
+#include "random.h"

 int main(void)
 {
@@ -28,5 +30,10 @@ int main(void)
     printf("You are running RIOT on a(n) %s board.\n", RIOT_BOARD);
     printf("This board features a(n) %s MCU.\n", RIOT_MCU);

+    while(1) {
+        printf("random number: %"PRIu32"\n", random_uint32());
+        xtimer_usleep(2000000);
+    }
+
     return 0;
 }
diff --git a/sys/random/fortuna/fortuna.c b/sys/random/fortuna/fortuna.c
index ac096eb360..5f9bcc2a58 100644
--- a/sys/random/fortuna/fortuna.c
+++ b/sys/random/fortuna/fortuna.c
@@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ int fortuna_random_data(fortuna_state_t *state, uint8_t *out, size_t bytes)

     /* reseed the generator if needed, before returning data */
 #if FORTUNA_RESEED_INTERVAL_MS > 0 && IS_USED(MODULE_FORTUNA_RESEED)
-    if (state->pools[0].len >= FORTUNA_MIN_POOL_SIZE &&
-        atomic_load_u8(&state->reseed)) {
+    if (state-atomic_load_u8(&state->needs_reseed)) {
+        puts("reseed");
 #else
     if (state->pools[0].len >= FORTUNA_MIN_POOL_SIZE) {
 #endif