Name: jl28948 Date: 10/30/98


In version JDK1.1.7 setting up the 20 byte seed
value as done by the class java.security.SeedGenerator
takes very long, like in the order of minutes
instead of seconds. Looking at the source in
java/security/SeedGenerator.java the problem is
probably that the average value of the variable
"latch" is not large enough when it is used to
increment the variable "counter" from 0 to 64000.
On average it takes say 20 increments of
counter to reach 64000, and this has to be
repeated 20 times. Each increment takes 250ms,
so in total about a 100 seconds.
(Review ID: 41003)
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