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Add notes on possible block of SecureRandom.generateSeed()/nextBytes()

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      Users find it confused that sometimes a call to SecureRandom.generateSeed() may hang the system. Since this method needs to gather entropy from a random source, this is inevitable if the source is a special device (say, /dev/random). We may need to document this behavior.

            wetmore Bradford Wetmore
            weijun Weijun Wang
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