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KeyTool internal state
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Cooke)
Wed Mar 8 09:06:18 2000
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Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 09:05:43 +0000
From: Andrew Cooke <andrew@intertrader.com>
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Hi,
Does anyone know the size of the internal state for the random number
generator in Java's keytool? A pointer to appropriate Java docs would
be sufficient.
(This seems to be pretty critical info for deciding how reliable the
keys are - the default random number generator in Java does not have
much state and to get sufficient state by seeding multiple instances
using Java's thread race mechanism - even if that is reliable - takes
longer in my own Java code than the time keytool takes to generate new
keys!)
I've looked through all the docs I can find, and also checked this
list's archives (I could only search titles (subjects) for keytool, and
only did the last 6 months, so if it's under a different title or
earlier, could you give me the title and/or date?). I've also posted a
question on the Sun Java discussion foums, but had no reply.
Thanks,
Andrew
