Oracle ATG Web Commerce includes a component you can use to generate secure random numbers. This component, with a Nucleus address of /atg/dynamo/service/random/SecureRandom, can generate random numbers more efficiently than the Java class, java.security.SecureRandom, as it provides the random number generator with a random seed, rather than using the slower process of Java’s SeedGenerator.
You can configure the SecureRandom service using another component, /atg/dynamo/service/random/SecureRandomConfiguration. The SecureRandomConfiguration component can configure the behavior of the SecureRandom service with these properties:
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| The secure random algorithm to use. |
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| The security provider supplying |
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| Oracle ATG Web Commerce generates a seed value for the random number generator when your application starts up. If the |
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For more information, read the Java security architecture documentation, including the Javadoc for java.security.SecureRandom.
