Switch all RNG code to the built-in PRNG.

It includes the following policy changes:
* All GetRand* functions seed the stack pointer and rdrand result
  (in addition to the performance counter)
* The periodic entropy added by the idle scheduler now seeds stack pointer,
  rdrand and perfmon data (once every 10 minutes) in addition to
  just a sleep timing.
* The entropy added when calling GetStrongRandBytes no longer includes
  the once-per-10-minutes perfmon data on windows (it is moved to the
  idle scheduler instead, where latency matters less).

Other changes:
* OpenSSL is no longer seeded directly anywhere. Instead, any generated
  randomness through our own RNG is fed back to OpenSSL (after an
  additional hashing step to prevent leaking our RNG state).
* Seeding that was previously done directly in RandAddSeedSleep is now
  moved to SeedSleep(), which is indirectly invoked through ProcRand
  from RandAddSeedSleep.
* Seeding that was previously done directly in GetStrongRandBytes()
  is now moved to SeedSlow(), which is indirectly invoked through
  ProcRand from GetStrongRandBytes().

1 files changed, 118 insertions, 67 deletions

diff --git a/src/random.cpp b/src/random.cpp
index 6699318ee0..ca54cc9962 100644
--- a/src/random.cpp
+++ b/src/random.cpp
@@ -145,18 +145,8 @@ static bool GetHardwareRand(unsigned char* ent32) {
     return false;
 }
 
-void RandAddSeed()
+static void RandAddSeedPerfmon(CSHA512& hasher)
 {
-    // Seed with CPU performance counter
-    int64_t nCounter = GetPerformanceCounter();
-    RAND_add(&nCounter, sizeof(nCounter), 1.5);
-    memory_cleanse((void*)&nCounter, sizeof(nCounter));
-}
-
-static void RandAddSeedPerfmon()
-{
-    RandAddSeed();
-
 #ifdef WIN32
     // Don't need this on Linux, OpenSSL automatically uses /dev/urandom
     // Seed with the entire set of perfmon data
@@ -180,7 +170,7 @@ static void RandAddSeedPerfmon()
     }
     RegCloseKey(HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA);
     if (ret == ERROR_SUCCESS) {
-        RAND_add(vData.data(), nSize, nSize / 100.0);
+        hasher.Write(vData.data(), nSize);
         memory_cleanse(vData.data(), nSize);
     } else {
         // Performance data is only a best-effort attempt at improving the
@@ -288,13 +278,6 @@ void GetOSRand(unsigned char *ent32)
 #endif
 }
 
-void GetRandBytes(unsigned char* buf, int num)
-{
-    if (RAND_bytes(buf, num) != 1) {
-        RandFailure();
-    }
-}
-
 void LockingCallbackOpenSSL(int mode, int i, const char* file, int line);
 
 namespace {
@@ -303,6 +286,7 @@ struct RNGState {
     Mutex m_mutex;
     unsigned char m_state[32] GUARDED_BY(m_mutex) = {0};
     uint64_t m_counter GUARDED_BY(m_mutex) = 0;
+    bool m_strongly_seeded GUARDED_BY(m_mutex) = false;
     std::unique_ptr<Mutex[]> m_mutex_openssl;
 
     RNGState()
@@ -319,14 +303,6 @@ struct RNGState {
         // or corrupt. Explicitly tell OpenSSL not to try to load the file. The result for our libs will be
         // that the config appears to have been loaded and there are no modules/engines available.
         OPENSSL_no_config();
-
-#ifdef WIN32
-        // Seed OpenSSL PRNG with current contents of the screen
-        RAND_screen();
-#endif
-
-        // Seed OpenSSL PRNG with performance counter
-        RandAddSeed();
     }
 
     ~RNGState()
@@ -337,14 +313,19 @@ struct RNGState {
         CRYPTO_set_locking_callback(nullptr);
     }
 
-    /** Extract up to 32 bytes of entropy from the RNG state, mixing in new entropy from hasher. */
-    void MixExtract(unsigned char* out, size_t num, CSHA512&& hasher)
+    /** Extract up to 32 bytes of entropy from the RNG state, mixing in new entropy from hasher.
+     *
+     * If this function has never been called with strong_seed = true, false is returned.
+     */
+    bool MixExtract(unsigned char* out, size_t num, CSHA512&& hasher, bool strong_seed)
     {
         assert(num <= 32);
         unsigned char buf[64];
         static_assert(sizeof(buf) == CSHA512::OUTPUT_SIZE, "Buffer needs to have hasher's output size");
+        bool ret;
         {
             LOCK(m_mutex);
+            ret = (m_strongly_seeded |= strong_seed);
             // Write the current state of the RNG into the hasher
             hasher.Write(m_state, 32);
             // Write a new counter number into the state
@@ -363,6 +344,7 @@ struct RNGState {
         // Best effort cleanup of internal state
         hasher.Reset();
         memory_cleanse(buf, 64);
+        return ret;
     }
 };
 
@@ -386,61 +368,128 @@ void LockingCallbackOpenSSL(int mode, int i, const char* file, int line) NO_THRE
     }
 }
 
-static void AddDataToRng(void* data, size_t len, RNGState& rng);
+static void SeedTimestamp(CSHA512& hasher)
+{
+    int64_t perfcounter = GetPerformanceCounter();
+    hasher.Write((const unsigned char*)&perfcounter, sizeof(perfcounter));
+}
 
-void RandAddSeedSleep()
+static void SeedFast(CSHA512& hasher)
 {
-    RNGState& rng = GetRNGState();
+    unsigned char buffer[32];
 
-    int64_t nPerfCounter1 = GetPerformanceCounter();
-    std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(1));
-    int64_t nPerfCounter2 = GetPerformanceCounter();
+    // Stack pointer to indirectly commit to thread/callstack
+    const unsigned char* ptr = buffer;
+    hasher.Write((const unsigned char*)&ptr, sizeof(ptr));
 
-    // Combine with and update state
-    AddDataToRng(&nPerfCounter1, sizeof(nPerfCounter1), rng);
-    AddDataToRng(&nPerfCounter2, sizeof(nPerfCounter2), rng);
+    // Hardware randomness is very fast when available; use it always.
+    bool have_hw_rand = GetHardwareRand(buffer);
+    if (have_hw_rand) hasher.Write(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
 
-    memory_cleanse(&nPerfCounter1, sizeof(nPerfCounter1));
-    memory_cleanse(&nPerfCounter2, sizeof(nPerfCounter2));
+    // High-precision timestamp
+    SeedTimestamp(hasher);
 }
 
-static void AddDataToRng(void* data, size_t len, RNGState& rng) {
-    CSHA512 hasher;
-    hasher.Write((const unsigned char*)&len, sizeof(len));
-    hasher.Write((const unsigned char*)data, len);
-    rng.MixExtract(nullptr, 0, std::move(hasher));
+static void SeedSlow(CSHA512& hasher)
+{
+    unsigned char buffer[32];
+
+    // Everything that the 'fast' seeder includes
+    SeedFast(hasher);
+
+    // OS randomness
+    GetOSRand(buffer);
+    hasher.Write(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
+
+    // OpenSSL RNG (for now)
+    RAND_bytes(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
+    hasher.Write(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
+
+    // High-precision timestamp.
+    //
+    // Note that we also commit to a timestamp in the Fast seeder, so we indirectly commit to a
+    // benchmark of all the entropy gathering sources in this function).
+    SeedTimestamp(hasher);
 }
 
-void GetStrongRandBytes(unsigned char* out, int num)
+static void SeedSleep(CSHA512& hasher)
 {
-    RNGState& rng = GetRNGState();
+    // Everything that the 'fast' seeder includes
+    SeedFast(hasher);
 
-    assert(num <= 32);
-    CSHA512 hasher;
-    unsigned char buf[64];
+    // High-precision timestamp
+    SeedTimestamp(hasher);
 
-    // First source: OpenSSL's RNG
-    RandAddSeedPerfmon();
-    GetRandBytes(buf, 32);
-    hasher.Write(buf, 32);
+    // Sleep for 1ms
+    MilliSleep(1);
 
-    // Second source: OS RNG
-    GetOSRand(buf);
-    hasher.Write(buf, 32);
+    // High-precision timestamp after sleeping (as we commit to both the time before and after, this measures the delay)
+    SeedTimestamp(hasher);
 
-    // Third source: HW RNG, if available.
-    if (GetHardwareRand(buf)) {
-        hasher.Write(buf, 32);
+    // Windows performance monitor data (once every 10 minutes)
+    RandAddSeedPerfmon(hasher);
+}
+
+static void SeedStartup(CSHA512& hasher)
+{
+#ifdef WIN32
+    RAND_screen();
+#endif
+
+    // Everything that the 'slow' seeder includes.
+    SeedSlow(hasher);
+
+    // Windows performance monitor data.
+    RandAddSeedPerfmon(hasher);
+}
+
+enum class RNGLevel {
+    FAST, //!< Automatically called by GetRandBytes
+    SLOW, //!< Automatically called by GetStrongRandBytes
+    SLEEP, //!< Called by RandAddSeedSleep()
+};
+
+static void ProcRand(unsigned char* out, int num, RNGLevel level)
+{
+    // Make sure the RNG is initialized first (as all Seed* function possibly need hwrand to be available).
+    RNGState& rng = GetRNGState();
+
+    assert(num <= 32);
+
+    CSHA512 hasher;
+    switch (level) {
+    case RNGLevel::FAST:
+        SeedFast(hasher);
+        break;
+    case RNGLevel::SLOW:
+        SeedSlow(hasher);
+        break;
+    case RNGLevel::SLEEP:
+        SeedSleep(hasher);
+        break;
     }
 
     // Combine with and update state
-    rng.MixExtract(out, num, std::move(hasher));
+    if (!rng.MixExtract(out, num, std::move(hasher), false)) {
+        // On the first invocation, also seed with SeedStartup().
+        CSHA512 startup_hasher;
+        SeedStartup(startup_hasher);
+        rng.MixExtract(out, num, std::move(startup_hasher), true);
+    }
 
-    // Produce output
-    memcpy(out, buf, num);
-    memory_cleanse(buf, 64);
+    // For anything but the 'fast' level, feed the resulting RNG output (after an additional hashing step) back into OpenSSL.
+    if (level != RNGLevel::FAST) {
+        unsigned char buf[64];
+        CSHA512().Write(out, num).Finalize(buf);
+        RAND_add(buf, sizeof(buf), num);
+        memory_cleanse(buf, 64);
+    }
 }
 
+void GetRandBytes(unsigned char* buf, int num) { ProcRand(buf, num, RNGLevel::FAST); }
+void GetStrongRandBytes(unsigned char* buf, int num) { ProcRand(buf, num, RNGLevel::SLOW); }
+void RandAddSeedSleep() { ProcRand(nullptr, 0, RNGLevel::SLEEP); }
+
 uint64_t GetRand(uint64_t nMax)
 {
     if (nMax == 0)
@@ -539,8 +588,10 @@ bool Random_SanityCheck()
     if (stop == start) return false;
 
     // We called GetPerformanceCounter. Use it as entropy.
-    RAND_add((const unsigned char*)&start, sizeof(start), 1);
-    RAND_add((const unsigned char*)&stop, sizeof(stop), 1);
+    CSHA512 to_add;
+    to_add.Write((const unsigned char*)&start, sizeof(start));
+    to_add.Write((const unsigned char*)&stop, sizeof(stop));
+    GetRNGState().MixExtract(nullptr, 0, std::move(to_add), false);
 
     return true;
 }
@@ -571,7 +622,7 @@ FastRandomContext& FastRandomContext::operator=(FastRandomContext&& from) noexce
 void RandomInit()
 {
     // Invoke RNG code to trigger initialization (if not already performed)
-    GetRNGState();
+    ProcRand(nullptr, 0, RNGLevel::FAST);
 
     ReportHardwareRand();
 }