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[jira] [Commented] (HADOOP-10713) Refactor CryptoCodec#generateSecureRandom to take a byte[]

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10713?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14038261#comment-14038261 ] 

Charles Lamb commented on HADOOP-10713:
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+1


> Refactor CryptoCodec#generateSecureRandom to take a byte[]
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-10713
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10713
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: security
>    Affects Versions: fs-encryption (HADOOP-10150 and HDFS-6134)
>            Reporter: Andrew Wang
>            Assignee: Andrew Wang
>            Priority: Trivial
>             Fix For: 3.0.0
>
>         Attachments: HADOOP-10713.001.patch, HADOOP-10713.002.patch
>
>
> Following suit with the Java Random implementations, it'd be better if we switched CryptoCodec#generateSecureRandom to take a byte[] for parity.
> Also, let's document that this method needs to be thread-safe, which is an important consideration for CryptoCodec implementations.



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