# Thread spinner seeding mechanism problems

Matthew Meyer (mmeyer@aurorasim.com)
Fri, 12 Dec 1997 21:06:07 -0500

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    Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 21:06:07 -0500

    From: mmeyer@aurorasim.com (Matthew Meyer)

    To: java-security@web1.javasoft.com

    Subject: Thread spinner seeding mechanism problems

Dear Java Security Team:

I am in need of a way to avoid having the sun.security.provider.DSA
object
instantiate a SecureRandom with the default, "Thread -spinner", seeding
mechanism. I am hypothesizing that it is calling new SecureRandom() in
the
first call to sign() , based on running it in jdb. I was hoping I could
set a
SecureRandom with my own seed on it via engineSetParameter, but I
couldn't seem to guess the right name. Thread spinner seeding is
causing me alot of headaches that
I won't go into right now, and I need to make sure it doesn't happen
anywhere in
my system.

Thanks for any help,

Matt Meyer
Physicist/Software Engineer
Aurora Simulation, Inc.
Reston, VA

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