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/*
* @(#)SecureRandom.java 1.16 97/01/30
*
* Copyright (c) 1995, 1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
*
* This software is the confidential and proprietary information of Sun
* Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information"). You shall not
* disclose such Confidential Information and shall use it only in
* accordance with the terms of the license agreement you entered into
* with Sun.
*
* SUN MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE
* SOFTWARE, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
* PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. SUN SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES
* SUFFERED BY LICENSEE AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING
* THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS DERIVATIVES.
*
* CopyrightVersion 1.1_beta
*
*/
package java.security;
import java.util.*;
/**
* <p>This class provides a crytpographically strong pseudo-random number
* generator based on the SHA-1 hash algorithm.
*
* <p>The calls inherited from Random will be implemented in terms of the
* strengthened functionality.
*
* @see java.util.Random
*
* @version 1.2 96/09/15
* @author Benjamin Renaud
* @author Josh Bloch
*/
public class SecureRandom extends Random {
private byte[] state;
private MessageDigest digest;
/**
* Used by the empty constructor to seed the SecureRandom under construction.
*/
private static SecureRandom generatorGenerator;
/**
* This empty constructor automatically seeds the generator. We attempt
* to provide sufficient seed bytes to completely randomize the internal
* state of the generator (20 bytes). Note, however, that our seed
* generation algorithm has not been thoroughly studied or widely deployed.
* It relies on counting the number of times that the calling thread
* can yield while waiting for another thread to sleep for a specified
* interval.
*
* <p>The first time this constructor is called in a given Virtual Machine,
* it may take several seconds of CPU time to seed the generator, depending
* on the underlying hardware. Successive calls run quickly because they
* rely on the same (internal) pseudo-random number generator for their
* seed bits.
*
* <p>The seeding procedure implemented by this constructor ensures that
* the sequence of pseudo-random bytes produced by each SecureRandom
* instance yields no useful information about the byte-sequence produced
* by any other instance. If however, the user wishes to produce multiple
* instances with truly unrelated seeds, the following code yields
* the desired result (at substantial CPU cost per instance!):<p>
*
* <pre>
* SecureRandom rnd = new SecureRandom(SecureRandom.getSeed(20));
* </pre>
*/
public SecureRandom() {
this(nextSeed());
}
/**
* This call, used exclusively by the empty constructor, returns 20 seed
* bytes to seed the SecureRandom instance under construction. The first
* time this method is called, creates a class-wide generator-generator.
* This involves generating 20 "real-random" bytes with getSeed, which is
* very time consuming!
*/
private synchronized static byte[] nextSeed() {
if (generatorGenerator == null)
generatorGenerator = new SecureRandom(getSeed(20));
byte seed[] = new byte[20];
generatorGenerator.nextBytes(seed);
return seed;
}
/**
* This constructor uses a user-provided seed in preference to the
* self-seeding algorithm referred to in the empty constructor
* description. It may be preferable to the empty constructor if the
* caller has access to high-quality random bytes from some physical
* device (for example, a radiation detector or a noisy diode).
*
* @param seed the seed.
*/
public SecureRandom(byte seed[]) {
/*
* This call to our superclass constructor will result in a call
* to our own setSeed method, which will return immediately when
* it is passed zero.
*/
super(0);
try {
digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA");
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
throw new InternalError("internal error: SHA-1 not available.");
}
setSeed(seed);
}
/**
* Reseeds this random object. The given seed supplements, rather than
* replaces, the existing seed. Thus, repeated calls are guaranteed
* never to reduce randomness.
*
* @param seed the seed.
*/
synchronized public void setSeed(byte[] seed) {
if (state != null)
digest.update(state);
state = digest.digest(seed);
}
/**
* Reseeds this random object, using the eight bytes contained
* in the given <code>long seed</code>. The given seed supplements,
* rather than replaces, the existing seed. Thus, repeated calls
* are guaranteed never to reduce randomness.
*
* <p>This method is defined for compatibility with
* <code>java.util.Random</code>.
*
* @param seed the seed.
*/
public void setSeed(long seed) {
/*
* Ignore call from super constructor (as well as any other calls
* unfortunate enough to be passing 0). It's critical that we
* ignore call from superclass constructor, as digest has not
* yet been initialized at that point.
*/
if (seed != 0)
setSeed(longToByteArray(seed));
}
private byte[] randomBytes = null;
private int randomBytesUsed = 0;
private long counter = 0; /* # of times we've generated randomBytes */
/**
* Generates a user-specified number of random bytes. This method is
* used as the basis of all random entities returned by this class
* (except seed bytes). Thus, it may be overridden to change the
* behavior of the class.
*
* @param bytes the array to be filled in with random bytes.
*/
synchronized public void nextBytes(byte[] bytes) {
int numRequested = bytes.length;
int numGot = 0;
while (numGot < numRequested) {
/* If no more random bytes, make some more */
if (randomBytes == null || randomBytesUsed == randomBytes.length) {
digest.update(state);
randomBytes = digest.digest(longToByteArray(counter++));
randomBytesUsed = 0;
}
bytes[numGot++] = randomBytes[randomBytesUsed++];
}
}
/**
* Generates an integer containing the user-specified number of
* pseudo-random bits (right justified, with leading zeros). This
* method overrides a <code>java.util.Random</code> method, and serves
* to provide a source of random bits to all of the methods inherited
* from that class (for example, <code>nextInt</code>,
* <code>nextLong</code>, and <code>nextFloat</code>).
*
* @param numBits number of pseudo-random bits to be generated, where
* 0 <= <code>numBits</code> <= 32.
*/
final protected int next(int numBits) {
int numBytes = (numBits+7)/8;
byte b[] = new byte[numBytes];
int next = 0;
nextBytes(b);
for (int i=0; i<numBytes; i++)
next = (next << 8) + (b[i] & 0xFF);
return next >>> (numBytes*8 - numBits);
}
/**
* Returns the given number of seed bytes, computed using the seed
* generation algorithm that this class uses to seed itself. This
* call may be used to seed other random number generators. While
* we attempt to return a "truly random" sequence of bytes, we do not
* know exactly how random the bytes returned by this call are. (See
* the empty constructor <a href = "#SecureRandom">SecureRandom</a>
* for a brief description of the underlying algorithm.)
* The prudent user will err on the side of caution and get extra
* seed bytes, although it should be noted that seed generation is
* somewhat costly.
*
* @param numBytes the number of seed bytes to generate.
*
* @return the seed bytes.
*/
public static byte[] getSeed(int numBytes) {
byte[] retVal = new byte[numBytes];
for (int i=0; i<numBytes; i++)
retVal[i] = (byte) SeedGenerator.genSeed();
return retVal;
}
/**
* Helper function to convert a long into a byte array (least significant
* byte first).
*/
private static byte[] longToByteArray(long l) {
byte[] retVal = new byte[8];
for (int i=0; i<8; i++) {
retVal[i] = (byte) l;
l >>= 8;
}
return retVal;
}
}