Yes I have encountered it a while back [1] but I never had time to find
the cause.
/Pontus
[1] http://sling.markmail.org/message/bs6npo3iyejetgz3
On 2010-09-03 23:25, Felix Meschberger wrote:
Hi all,
I noticed slow (extremely slow, actually: something like 30seconds)
startup of the Form Authentication Handler [1]. Tracking this down I
found, that the SecureRandom implementation uses /dev/random which may
block indefinitely to gather enough entropy to ensure secure random byte
stream.
Now, a local quick hack solution is to create a symbolic link from
/dev/urandom to /dev/random. But I don't think this is the right
solution in the long run -- and I doubt this is a viable solution on a
server system.
I wonder, whether we really new SecureRandom here or whether
java.util.Random would just be random enough ?
Do others have experience with this ?
(ah, Sun has a whole range of bugs for this /dev/random issue)
Regards
Felix
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-1729
