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[jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-9581) pig-tests spend time waiting on
/dev/random for SecureRandom
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9581?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Ariel Weisberg updated CASSANDRA-9581:
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Description: We don't need secure random numbers (for unit tests) so waiting for entropy doesn't make much sense. Luckily Java makes it easy to point to /dev/urandom for entropy. It also transparently handles it correctly on Windows. (was: We don't need secure random numbers so waiting for entropy doesn't make much sense. Luckily Java makes it easy to point to /dev/urandom for entropy. It also transparently handles it correctly on Windows.)
> pig-tests spend time waiting on /dev/random for SecureRandom
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> Key: CASSANDRA-9581
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9581
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Test
> Reporter: Ariel Weisberg
>
> We don't need secure random numbers (for unit tests) so waiting for entropy doesn't make much sense. Luckily Java makes it easy to point to /dev/urandom for entropy. It also transparently handles it correctly on Windows.
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