[fedora-java] fc6 extras java status

[Mark Wielaard]

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 11:25 -0700, Anthony Green wrote:
> * Azureus makes my computer practically unusable because of libgcj's new
> SecureRandom implementation.  I've filed a bug for a work around here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200653
> Mark tells me this is the root cause of some crypto test timeout
> problems on the autobuilder as well.  Casey says that this same code
> doesn't seem to have a problem on jamvm.

It does seem to be not very efficient on my version of jamvm. I just
committed the following to classpath which works pretty nicely:

2006-07-30  Mark Wielaard  <mark at klomp.org>

    * resource/java/security/classpath.security: Add /dev/urandom as
    default securerandom.source.

This will be part of 0.92.

Cheers,

Mark

diff -u -r1.2.2.4 classpath.security
--- resource/java/security/classpath.security   23 Jul 2006 21:28:36 -0000     1.2.2.4
+++ resource/java/security/classpath.security   30 Jul 2006 21:39:58 -0000
@@ -45,3 +45,7 @@
 # The VM-wide default callback handler class name.  MUST be a subclass of
 # javax.security.auth.callback.CallbackHandler
 auth.login.defaultCallbackHandler=gnu.javax.security.auth.callback.DefaultCallbackHandler
+
+# If this file isn't found we fall back to generating entropy through
+# "battling threads".
+securerandom.source=file:///dev/urandom