SecureRandom Seed

I have been attempting to use SecureRandom to generate a SecretKey to encode some data. In so doing, I have found the setSeed method. Per the notes in the api "The given seed supplements, rather than replaces, the existing seed. Thus, repeated calls are guaranteed never to reduce randomness", does this mean that we have to retain the new SecretKey to be used to decode the data encoded with that key? Or can we still seed SecureRandom with the same seed (like a random number generator) to get the same results upon generating a new SecretKey?

thanks,

[566 byte] By [cbriarnolda] at [2007-11-26 14:16:19]