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  • From: Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder AT yahoo.com>
  • To: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] uuid generation (was Re: Scope of namespaces)
  • Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:19:31 -0800 (PST)

--- Steve Loughran <steve.loughran AT gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/7/06, Nils Kilden-Pedersen <nilskp AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 2/7/06, Steve Loughran
> <steve.loughran AT gmail.com> wrote:
...
>
> The serialisation is in the generation of random nos
> from the feed.
>
> The static generator uses a shared random number
> generator, of type
> SecureRandom. If you follow its code:
>
> synchronized public void nextBytes(byte[] bytes)
> {
> ...
> }

Ok. Fair enough. In practice the default SecureRandom
doesn't halt that long (at least it didn't last I
tried it... but I didn't run out of neutrinos ;) ).
But I guess there's one more potential reason not to
use Sun's impl then.

-+ Tatu +-



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