// Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. package org.chromium.chromoting; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.security.SecureRandom; /** * This class contains code to initialize a SecureRandom generator securely on Android platforms * <= 4.3. See * {@link http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/08/some-securerandom-thoughts.html}. */ public class SecureRandomInitializer { private static final int NUM_RANDOM_BYTES = 16; /** * Safely initializes the random number generator, by seeding it with data from /dev/urandom. */ public static void initialize(SecureRandom generator) throws IOException { FileInputStream fis = null; try { fis = new FileInputStream("/dev/urandom"); byte[] bytes = new byte[NUM_RANDOM_BYTES]; if (bytes.length != fis.read(bytes)) { throw new IOException("Failed to get enough random data."); } generator.setSeed(bytes); } finally { try { if (fis != null) { fis.close(); } } catch (IOException e) { // Ignore exception closing the device. } } } }