Update #2: JEP 123: SecureRandom First Draft and Implementation.

Brad Wetmore bradford.wetmore at oracle.com
Wed Jan 9 09:19:28 UTC 2013


One minor omission.

On 1/9/2013 12:44 AM, Brad Wetmore wrote:
> NativePRNG reads seeds from /dev/random and nextBytes from /dev/urandom.
>   I added two new NativePRNG implementations which are completely
> blocking or nonblocking.  The "securerandom.strongAlgorithm" property
> points to the blocking variant

on Unix-like OS's (Solaris/Linux/MacOS), and "Windows-PRNG" on Windows.

Brad





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