thread safe for SecureRandom.nextBytes()?

[david chan]

Hi,
I have a servlet which will initialize a static SecureRandom object then it will be used in doPost method to get a random byte[] for each http request.
Is it thread safe for the nextBytes() method in this manner?
Thanks.
David

[Cindy Glass]

Moving this to Threads.

[Jim Yingst]

Looking at the source code, yes, the class appears to be thread safe. Unfortunately the authors did not bother to document this fact in the source. Also i didn't check the class thouroughly; it's possible some of the methods are not thread-safe. To be sure, you should really put in synchronization yourself I think. But you can probably get away without it if you want.