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| -rw-r--r-- | src/random.h | 2 |
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diff --git a/src/random.h b/src/random.h index 2f9c0f5a36..75d037738d 100644 --- a/src/random.h +++ b/src/random.h @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ * - RandAddSeedSleep() seeds everything that fast seeding includes, but additionally: * - A high-precision timestamp before and after sleeping 1ms. * - (On Windows) Once every 10 minutes, performance monitoring data from the OS. + - - Once every minute, strengthen the entropy for 10 ms using repeated SHA512. * These just exploit the fact the system is idle to improve the quality of the RNG * slightly. * @@ -51,6 +52,7 @@ * - 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 * (up to) the first 32 bytes of H are produced as output, while the last 32 bytes |