com.atlassian.security.random

Class SecureRandomFactory

java.lang.Object

com.atlassian.security.random.SecureRandomFactory

public final class SecureRandomFactory
extends Object

A factory which returns properly initialised instances of SecureRandom.

Clients should not access this class directly, but instead use SecureRandomService or SecureTokenGenerator for their random data generation.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static SecureRandom	newInstance() Creates and fully initialises a new SecureRandom instance.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

newInstance

public static SecureRandom newInstance()

Creates and fully initialises a new SecureRandom instance.

The instance is created via SecureRandom.SecureRandom(), which uses the default algorithm provided by the JVM.

The initialisation involves forcing the self-seeding of the instance by calling SecureRandom.nextBytes(byte[]).

Returns:

self-seeded SecureRandom instance.