Hi,

I remember now, so sorry for not referring to your earlier mail.

Regards
Felix

On 04.09.2010 00:50, Pontus Amberg wrote:
> 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
>>
>>    
> 
> 

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