test/java/security/spec/EllipticCurveMatch.java othervm?

Brad Wetmore bradford.wetmore at oracle.com
Thu Aug 30 21:08:35 UTC 2012



On 6/15/2011 2:00 AM, Vincent Ryan wrote:
> On 06/15/11 09:45, Weijun Wang wrote:
>> Hi Vinnie
>>
>> Why does this test run in /othervm mode?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Max
>
> It was failing due to SecureRandom problems on some platforms when run in samevm
> mode. I think it was related to a lack of entropy.

Really?  That surprises me!  Generally it's when you run in othervm that 
you you might run out of entropy in /dev/random.

Can you reliably duplicate this?

Brad





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