Stephen Souness wrote:
> Could it be related to some problems that Java has had on some Linux
> distributions with obtaining entropy for its random number generation
> for encryption?
>
> In the past (a few years back admittedly) we encountered a problem when
> trying to connect our application to an https site.
>
> Changing the
> securerandom.source
> entry in
> ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/security/java.security
> to
> file:/dev/urandom
> solved it for us.

On the machine I've seen this phenomenon securerandom.source is already set to 
file:/dev/urandom. Since I didn't change the java.security file it seems to 
be the standard on 1.5 JVMs.

Regards
  mks

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