How to create an array of 20 random bytes?

byte[] b = new byte[20];new Random().nextBytes(b);

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If you want a cryptographically strong random number generator (also thread safe) without using a third party API, you can use SecureRandom.

Java 6 & 7:

SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();byte[] bytes = new byte[20];random.nextBytes(bytes);

Java 8 (even more secure):

byte[] bytes = new byte[20];SecureRandom.getInstanceStrong().nextBytes(bytes);

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If you are already using Apache Commons Lang, the RandomUtils makes this a one-liner:

byte[] randomBytes = RandomUtils.nextBytes(20);

Note: this does not produce cryptographically-secure bytes.

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