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Pieter Wuille 16329224e7 Switch FastRandomContext to ChaCha20 2017-03-29 11:26:08 -07:00
isle2983 27765b6403 Increment MIT Licence copyright header year on files modified in 2016
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$ contrib/devtools/copyright_header.py update .
2016-12-31 11:01:21 -07:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan 5eaaa83ac1 Kill insecure_random and associated global state
There are only a few uses of `insecure_random` outside the tests.
This PR replaces uses of insecure_random (and its accompanying global
state) in the core code with an FastRandomContext that is automatically
seeded on creation.

This is meant to be used for inner loops. The FastRandomContext
can be in the outer scope, or the class itself, then rand32() is used
inside the loop. Useful e.g. for pushing addresses in CNode or the fee
rounding, or randomization for coin selection.

As a context is created per purpose, thus it gets rid of
cross-thread unprotected shared usage of a single set of globals, this
should also get rid of the potential race conditions.

- I'd say TxMempool::check is not called enough to warrant using a special
  fast random context, this is switched to GetRand() (open for
  discussion...)

- The use of `insecure_rand` in ConnectThroughProxy has been replaced by
  an atomic integer counter. The only goal here is to have a different
  credentials pair for each connection to go on a different Tor circuit,
  it does not need to be random nor unpredictable.

- To avoid having a FastRandomContext on every CNode, the context is
  passed into PushAddress as appropriate.

There remains an insecure_random for test usage in `test_random.h`.
2016-10-17 13:08:35 +02:00