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authorAmiti Uttarwar <amiti@uttarwar.org>2020-04-28 14:40:05 -0700
committerAmiti Uttarwar <amiti@uttarwar.org>2020-05-25 11:27:07 -0700
commit1f94bb0c744a103b633c1051e8fbc01e612097dc (patch)
tree005999c11dc507fcd9f7b7f7e7e5859fcbbb8653 /src/net_processing.cpp
parent9c8a55d9cb0ec73f10b196e79b637aa601c0a6b7 (diff)
[doc] Provide rationale for randomization in scheduling.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/net_processing.cpp b/src/net_processing.cpp
index d0e345c30e..e0eb092f1d 100644
--- a/src/net_processing.cpp
+++ b/src/net_processing.cpp
@@ -825,7 +825,8 @@ void PeerLogicValidation::ReattemptInitialBroadcast(CScheduler& scheduler) const
}
}
- // schedule next run for 10-15 minutes in the future
+ // Schedule next run for 10-15 minutes in the future.
+ // We add randomness on every cycle to avoid the possibility of P2P fingerprinting.
const std::chrono::milliseconds delta = std::chrono::minutes{10} + GetRandMillis(std::chrono::minutes{5});
scheduler.scheduleFromNow([&] { ReattemptInitialBroadcast(scheduler); }, delta);
}