# Re: Javakey DOA on JDK 1.1.7/Win 95

Charlie Lai (charlie@angeles.eng.sun.com)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:41:29 -0800 (PDT)

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hi,

> It looks like javakey is completely messed up in JDK1.1.7 / Win 95

uh, unfortunately it is.

we improved the Seed Generator for the SecureRandom implementation
that javakey relies on. the problem seems to stem from the fact that
this new implementation spawns a number of new threads
(to create noise in the system and improve entropy),
and that Win95 does a very poor job managing multiple threads.

we have a bug fix that will go back into 1.1.8.
unfortunately even with this fix, win95 performance
is about twice as slow as that on NT (on the same physical machine).

however, given the inherent problems with win95,
there's little we can do about that.

> Furthermore, I have noticed incompatibilities with previous versions =
> (issuer organization is now required to generate a certificate, which =
> was not the case until now), which are absolutely not documented in the =
> release notes.

hmmm .. not sure i understand what you mean?

thanks,
charlie

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