# Re: a possible SecureRandom seeding implementation?

Jan Luehe (Jan.Luehe@Eng)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:21:40 -0800

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    Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 09:21:40 -0800

    From: Jan.Luehe@Eng (Jan Luehe)

    Message-Id: <199803261721.JAA24146@laguna.eng.sun.com>

    To: java-security@javasoft.com, gchung@openhorizon.com

    Subject: Re: a possible SecureRandom seeding implementation?

George:

> 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.

SecureRandom has been changed to become an "engine class"; therefore, it is
fully provider-based, and you can plug-in your own implementation of it.

Jan

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