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Diffstat (limited to 'src/random.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/random.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/random.h b/src/random.h index 9d1f751773..2d8ab085e3 100644 --- a/src/random.h +++ b/src/random.h @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ * that fast seeding includes, but additionally: * - OS entropy (/dev/urandom, getrandom(), ...). The application will terminate if * this entropy source fails. - * - Bytes from OpenSSL's RNG (which itself may be seeded from various sources) * - Another high-precision timestamp (indirectly committing to a benchmark of all the * previous sources). * These entropy sources are slower, but designed to make sure the RNG state contains @@ -52,7 +51,6 @@ * sources used in the 'slow' seeder are included, but also: * - 256 bits from the hardware RNG (rdseed or rdrand) when available. * - (On Windows) Performance monitoring data from the OS. - * - (On Windows) Through OpenSSL, the screen contents. * - Strengthen the entropy for 100 ms using repeated SHA512. * * When mixing in new entropy, H = SHA512(entropy || old_rng_state) is computed, and @@ -85,11 +83,11 @@ uint256 GetRandHash() noexcept; void GetStrongRandBytes(unsigned char* buf, int num) noexcept; /** - * Sleep for 1ms, gather entropy from various sources, and feed them to the PRNG state. + * Gather entropy from various expensive sources, and feed them to the PRNG state. * * Thread-safe. */ -void RandAddSeedSleep(); +void RandAddPeriodic(); /** * Fast randomness source. This is seeded once with secure random data, but |