ThreadLocalRandom clinit troubles
Peter Levart
peter.levart at gmail.com
Mon Jul 14 16:59:03 UTC 2014
Hi Sean, Alex
Here's a sum-up post:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2014-June/010700.html
Regards, Peter
On 07/14/2014 04:44 PM, Sean Mullan wrote:
> I don't see a pointer to the webrev/patch -- did you forget to include
> it?
>
> --Sean
>
> On 07/11/2014 07:33 PM, 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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