Name: jn10789 Date: 02/09/99


SecureRandom takes an inordinate amount of time to initialize in Windows 98. I am running on a 300 MHz Pentium II with Windows 98, 192 MB RAM, and 8 GB HD space. Nothing else is running at the time the following program runs. I tried with and without optimization.

import java.security.*;
import java.util.*;

public final class RandomTest {
  private SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();

  public RandomTest() {
    Date start = new Date();
    System.out.println("Random int: " + random.nextInt());
    Date end = new Date();
    System.out.println("Start: " + start);
    System.out.println("End: " + end);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    new RandomTest();
  }
}

And the output:

Random int: -1035658255
Start: Sat Feb 06 12:19:10 EST 1999
End: Sat Feb 06 12:19:44 EST 1999

Note that it took 34 seconds to initialize!

I have run SecureRandom (1.1.6) on a Windows NT machine (150 MHz Pentium) and it only took about 5 seconds to start up.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Ralph
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(Review ID: 53841)
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