Random Security Check
Answer 1 of 10: I had not been singled out for one of those random security checks where they go through everything in your carry on and person for a very very long time. Until last month that is. I believe the last time I was selected was several years ago.
RPF conducts random security check at Kazipet station
- There have been 'random security checks' conducted at all of the parks upon every visit. Other than last Saturday mid-day at MK when everyone was being sent through the metal detectors, we have only witnessed a very few people 'randomly selected' to go through the screening.
- Several flaws here: “Security checks at your gate” - since about 2003, I have not seen one random security check at my or any other gate. Security screening is performed at a central entry point in most airports.
- When the 'random security check' is not so random after all. I come from a little country in Central America called Honduras. Besides being Latina, I also come from a long line of.
- Answer 1 of 10: I had not been singled out for one of those random security checks where they go through everything in your carry on and person for a very very long time. Until last month that is. I believe the last time I was selected was several years ago.
The Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel on Monday performed a random security check at the railway station right here utilizing a sniffer canine of the RPF’s canine squad based mostly in Kazipet railway station in Warangal Urban District.
Led by its handler L Sunil, the Belgian Malinois breed canine, particularly skilled to detect explosives, scoured the circulating space, the platforms, the parking space and the products shed as a part of the random check of the whole premises of the railway station as a security precaution, sources stated.
Inspector, RPF, Khammam, K Madhusudhan supervised the security check which lasted for practically two hours. However, nothing suspicious was discovered throughout the thorough search of the railway station premises, sources added.
The railway station, positioned on one of many busiest corridors of the South Central Railway, is provided with a string of CCTV cameras put in at vantage factors for round the clock surveillance.
Sources stated the RPF has put in place a complete security system envisaging anti-sabotage checks at the railway station in coordination with the District Police and the Government Railway Police frequently for the protection and security of the prepare commuters.
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1. Introduction
In this short tutorial, we'll learn about java.security.SecureRandom, a class that provides a cryptographically strong random number generator.
2. Comparison to java.util.Random
Standard JDK implementations of java.util.Random use a Linear Congruential Generator (LCG) algorithm for providing random numbers. The problem with this algorithm is that it’s not cryptographically strong. In other words, the generated values are much more predictable, therefore attackers could use it to compromise our system.
To overcome this issue, we should use java.security.SecureRandom in any security decisions. It produces cryptographically strong random values by using a cryptographically strong pseudo-random number generator (CSPRNG).
For a better understanding of the difference between LCG and CSPRNG, please look at the below chart presenting a distribution of values for both algorithms:
3. Generating Random Values
The most common way of using SecureRandom is to generate int, long, float, double or boolean values:
For generating int values we can pass an upper bound as a parameter:
In addition, we can generate a stream of values for int,double and long:
For all streams we can explicitly set the stream size:
and the origin (inclusive) and bound (exclusive) values as well:
We can also generate a sequence of random bytes. The nextBytes() function takes user-supplied byte array and fills it with random bytes:
4. Choosing an Algorithm
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By default, SecureRandom uses the SHA1PRNG algorithm to generate random values. We can explicitly make it use another algorithm by invoking the getInstance() method:
Creating SecureRandom with the new operator is equivalent to SecureRandom.getInstance(“SHA1PRNG”).
All random number generators available in Java can be found on the official docs page.
5. Seeds
Every instance of SecureRandom is created with an initial seed. It works as a base for providing random values and changes every time we generate a new value.
Using the new operator or calling SecureRandom.getInstance() will get the default seed from /dev/urandom.
We can change the seed by passing it as a constructor parameter:
or by invoking a setter method on the already created object:
Remember that if we create two instances of SecureRandom with the same seed, and the same sequence of method calls is made for each, they will generate and return identical sequences of numbers.
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6. Conclusion
In this tutorial, we've learned how the SecureRandom works and how to use it for generating random values.
As always, all code presented in this tutorial can be found over on GitHub.