Update #2: JEP 123: SecureRandom First Draft and Implementation. (original) (raw)

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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