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A JS7 - Credential Store can be used in a number of places. If access to a Credential Store is slow then you probably are hit by a problem with your entropy pool settings. This problem preferably can occur with Unix Unix operating systems. This problem is not related to JS7.
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The connection to a Credential Store requires random numbers to encrypt the connection. Java releases before 1. 12 use the /dev/random
file for high quality of randomness. However, when the entropy pool is is falling below the number of 64 units then /dev/random
will will block while reading random numbers.
Java can be configured to read from the file /dev/randomurandom
to get random numbers. The difference with to the /dev/urandomrandom
file is , that /dev/urandom
does not block if no random numbers are not immediately available.
Check Entropy Pool Issues (Unix)
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Java holds the security configuration for example with the ./jre/lib/security/java.security
or ./conf/security/java.security
files. Specific locations depend on the Java version in use. You can modify this file to point to /dev/urandom
instead of /dev/random
like this:
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Find further information from JS7 - FAQ - How to apply How To - Apply Java Options