* Use `OsRng` in place of `thread_rng`.
This changes the defaults of any builder by instantiating an `OsRng` instead of
a `thread_rng`, the former being much more secure than the latter.
Additionally, all the unit tests that still instantiate RNGs manually used `OsRng`s
as well; while there is no actual need for this level of security in tests, the performance overhead is very small and random number generation complexity has such a small impact on these tests that the convenience of being able to ban `thread_rng` from the codebase altogether, setting a good example and avoid issues when refactoring later greatly outweigh the negatives.
* Instead of storing random number generators in the various consensus algorithm instances, pass them in from the outside whenever they are needed.
This changes a large amount of interfaces (and in this commit is only partially done, since `DistAlgorithm` needs to be fundamentally altered as well.
It also obsoletes parts of the `util` module.
* Added an `R: Rng` type parameter to both methods of `DistAlgorithm`, forcing callers to pass in their own Rngs.
* Fixed documentation grammar and spelling in some of the altered interfaces due to RNG refactoring.
* Move `rng` argument to the end of the argument for most functions.
Also includes a reformatting due to Rust 1.30.
* Updated tests, accomodate `rng`-API changes.
* Fixed remaining compilation issues with new RNG code.
* Fix illegal `self` import outside curly braces.
* Cleaned up comments and fixed broken definition of `broadcast_input`.
* Updated existing test cases to properly work with static dispatch randomness.
* Do not use boxed `Rng`s for key generation in test networks.
* Use the passed-in `Rng` in `ReorderingAdversary`, instead of storing a boxed one.
* Fixed clippy lints after refactoring.
* Removed some no-longer necessary manual `fmt::Debug` implementations in test framework.
* Use `OsRng` even in tests in `binary_agreement_mitm`.
* Use a proper deterministic RNG in tests `binary_agreement_mitm`.
* Refactor `examples/simulation.rs` by not using `ThreadRng`, passing generic `Rng` parameters throughout and using a type alias instead of a newtype as the `Transaction`.
* Remove `thread_rng` use from `examples/node.rs`.
* Explicitly construct `InternalContrib` in `DynamicHoneyBadger::propose`.
* Fixed typo in description of `DistAlgorithm` trait.
* Move `CoinState` and `Agreement` definitions from `agreement/mod.rs`
to `.../agreement.rs`.
* Move `DynamicHoneyBadger` definition from `dynamic_honey_badger/mod.rs`
to `.../dynamic_honey_badger.rs`.
This removes some unnecessary allocation and conversion by accepting
more primitive types and references as the index in threshold decryption
and signing, and as the argument to a polynomial.
This will allow us to deduplicate network simulations in tests for the
different algorithms. More generally, it facilitates writing general
tools and applying them to all distributed algorithms.
This also contains a few fixes for the `common_subset` module:
* Rename `common_subset::Output` to `Message` to avoid confusing it
with the value that the algorithm outputs as a result.
* Implement dispatch of messages to the right instance within
`CommonSubset`, in a way that is transparent to the user.
This fixes several issues with the broadcast algorithm and enables the
previously ignored tests that now pass:
* Don't decide on a root hash based on anyone's `Echo` message.
* Work around the `merkle` crate's inability to produce the proof of the
`i`-th leaf for a given index `i`.
* Ignore messages from unknown nodes.
* Avoid decoding multiple times.
* Document the full algorithm.
* Don't count multiple `Echo` or `Ready` messages coming from the same
node.
* Fix index computation for a given proof.
* Move `BroadcastMessage` into `broadcast` to make the module more
self-contained.
The example now only executes a single broadcast instance, expecting the
first node (the one with the lexicographically lowest address) to
propose a value. A shell script is added that runs for example nodes.
Use env_logger instead of simple_logger, so the log level can be controlled
with an environment variable. You can e.g. log all output from the broadcast
test and the crate itself in debug mode with:
RUST_LOG=hbbft=debug,broadcast=debug
Some debugging messages are more concise now and use hexadecimal
notation instead of printing arrays of decimal values.
An indentation error in the Travis script is also fixed.
Andreas Fackler
Andreas Fackler
Marc Brinkmann
Demi Marie Obenour
Vladimir Komendantskiy
DrPeterVanNostrand
Nick Sanders
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