Uploaded image for project: 'OpenJDK'
  1. OpenJDK
  2. OPENJDK-4113

Revisit setting SECURERANDOM to urandom

XMLWordPrintable

    • Icon: Feature Feature
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Icon: Major Major
    • UBI10 Containers 1.23
    • None
    • container
    • None

      We configure SECURERANDOM to /dev/urandom:

      JAVA_SECURITY_FILE=/usr/lib/jvm/java/conf/security/java.security
      SECURERANDOM=securerandom.source
      if grep -q "^$SECURERANDOM=.*" $JAVA_SECURITY_FILE; then
          sed -i "s|^$SECURERANDOM=.*|$SECURERANDOM=file:/dev/urandom|" $JAVA_SECURITY_FILE
      else
          echo $SECURERANDOM=file:/dev/urandom >> $JAVA_SECURITY_FILE
      fi
       

      Is this still sensible?

              jdowland@redhat.com Jonathan Dowland
              jdowland@redhat.com Jonathan Dowland
              Votes:
              0 Vote for this issue
              Watchers:
              2 Start watching this issue

                Created:
                Updated: