# a possible SecureRandom seeding implementation?

George Chung (gchung@openhorizon.com)
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:20:50 -0800

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    From: "George Chung" <gchung@openhorizon.com>

    To: <java-security@javasoft.com>

    Subject: a possible SecureRandom seeding implementation?

    Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:20:50 -0800

How about making the seeding implementation for SecureRandom, or more
generically, a source of true randomness, part of the JVM spec?

Looks like the following potential seeding implementation would be freely
available to any potential JVM builder.

Just a thought.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To: Jason Venner <jason@idiom.com>
Cc: ssl-users@lists.cryptsoft.com <ssl-users@lists.cryptsoft.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 10:17 PM
Subject: Re: [ssl-users] RNG

>Jason Venner wrote:
>>
>> What do people think of /dev/random on the freebsd and linux machines
>> as a random number source?
>>
>> It is a limited source but according to the docs, it is a good source?
>
>It is very good. The numbers are _truly_ random.
>
>M
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