Jetty Quickstart with Shib IDP?

[Cantor, Scott]

> Got it!  It's the random number generator.  It's trying to pull a bunch of
> entropy out of /dev/random.  Not sure if there is a way to prime
> /dev/random prior to restart, but I did find a way to use /dev/urandom,
> which is:
> 
> -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/urandom
> 
> added to startup script.

I can't believe I keep forgetting this every time it comes up, particularly when I had to deal with the same thing.

FWIW, it's obviously very bad for security to use non-blocking PNRG, but I honestly don't know what the right solution is. If somebody has one, they should post it.

-- Scott