[jira] [Created] (RANGER-2700) creating service sometimes fails because SecureRandom.getInstanceStrong() is very slow

["Jiayi Liu (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jiayi Liu created RANGER-2700:
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             Summary: creating service sometimes fails because SecureRandom.getInstanceStrong() is very slow
                 Key: RANGER-2700
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-2700
             Project: Ranger
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: admin
    Affects Versions: ranger-2.0
            Reporter: Jiayi Liu


I try to install ranger-2.0.0 on my cluster, however when I try to create a new service in WebUI, I often get an error that createService failed. I try to debug through the source code, and found that it stuck on generateBase64EncodedIV() in PasswordUtils.java. It uses SecureRandom.getInstanceStrong() to get the random byte array. We can find a lot of information showing that this function often blocks and is very slow. SecureRandom.getInstanceStrong() uses /dev/random, and /dev/random blocks the thread if there isn't enough randomness available, but /dev/urandom will never block. SecureRandom.getInstanceStrong() is equivalent to SecureRandom.getInstance("NativePRNGBlocking"), and we can use /dev/urandom by replacing ecureRandom.getInstanceStrong() to SecureRandom.getInstance("NativePRNGNonBlocking"). /dev/random and /dev/urandom use the same pool of randomness under the hood, and they are equally secure. 



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