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Fortuna SecureRandom nextBigInt wrong bitLength #100

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mx1up opened this issue May 19, 2021 · 0 comments
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Fortuna SecureRandom nextBigInt wrong bitLength #100

mx1up opened this issue May 19, 2021 · 0 comments

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mx1up commented May 19, 2021

Hi,

Asking the nextBigInt with a certain bit length on the fortuna secure random does not always yield an int of the requested bit length. Is this normal?

I wrote a test to demonstrate:
mx1up@a148d66

sample output

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Expected: <256>
  Actual: <254>

please have a look
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