[concurrency-interest] ThreadLocalRandom clinit troubles

[Oleksandr Otenko]

Can someone summarize what happened?

SecureRandom used to get entropy from /dev/random, which is configurable 
through a policy file to /dev/urandom. Has this changed?

Alex

On 12/07/2014 00:33, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> Thanks to Peter for digging into the secure seed generator classes and 
> coming up with a patch.  Openjdk security folks, please review.  I 
> confess to getting lost whenever I try to orient myself in the twisty 
> maze of seed generator implementation files.
>
> Anyways, it seems important to have prngs like ThreadLocalRandom be 
> able to get a few bits of seed entropy without loading hundreds of 
> classes and without occupying any file descriptors permanently. 
>  Perhaps at Google we will go back to writing some simple non-portable 
> startup code to read /dev/urandom until openjdk security team comes up 
> with a more principled solution (but one that doesn't drag in too much 
> machinery).
>
>
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