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java.security.Provider#getServices order is no longer deterministic

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        A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
        Prior to the changes for https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7092821 java.security.Provider retained the order in which services where added. When querying the services using java.security.Provider#getServices the iteration order of the set matched the insertion order.
        Since http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk12/rev/9af672cab7cb this is no longer the case.

        The iteration order of the Set returned by java.security.Provider#getServices was never specified to begin with so one could argue that this isn't a regression, but it does have a real impact on other JDK classes. In particular, java.security.SecureRandom#getPrngAlgorithm uses the first SecureRandom implementation it encounters from the Set returned by getServices. The consequence is that the algorithm you actually get when using java.security.SecureRandom#SecureRandom() is very poorly defined and will often differ when running code on Java 8 vs Java 12.

        REGRESSION : Last worked in version 8u212

        STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
        Invoke `new java.security.SecureRandom#SecureRandom()` on Java 8 and Java 12

        EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
        EXPECTED -
        Provided the same set of java.security.Provider implementations are loaded, the same SecureRandomSpi implementation is used by the returned SecureRandom implementation.
        ACTUAL -
        The actual implementation depends on the order of the entries Provider's Hashtable.

        FREQUENCY : always


              valeriep Valerie Peng
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