[kaffe] patch w/ security implications for SecureRandom

Timothy Stack stack at cs.utah.edu
Mon Oct 27 11:31:02 PST 2003


> 
> Hola,

hi,

> I've been running into some messy stuff with the kaffe SecureRandom and
> finally looked into what was up - there was a missing shift in the next(int
> numbits) function.  Demo program & trivial patch below.

Oops, my bad, I'll check it in in a sec.

> I know kaffe's
> SecureRandom isn't really a strong PRNG (is anyone working on a Yarrow
> for kaffe?), but any app using it at the moment is, well, in need of
> the patch below :)

The existing SHA1PRNG isn't so bad, but it doesn't have a good initial 
source of randomness.  I have some code that will pull from /dev/random, I 
just need to check it in.

> hth,
> -jrandom

thanks,

tim




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