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Author SHA1 Message Date
Lioncash
189d277cfc Common/Random: Add convenience template for simple arithmetic values
In cases where we just want a random value for a primitive arithmetic
type, we can wrap this in a template to allow convenient direct
assignment instead of keeping declaration and initialization separate
(making it more difficult to use values uninitialized). This also allows
the use of Common::Random with functions such as std::generate, making
it more flexible in how random values can be generated.
2018-06-14 10:31:13 -04:00
Léo Lam
fff1db9730 Common: Add Random utilities
This makes it easier to generate random numbers or fill a buffer with
random data in a cryptographically secure way.

This also replaces existing usages of RNG functions in the codebase:

* <random> is pretty hard to use correctly, and std::random_device does
  not give enough guarantees about its results (it's
  implementation-defined, non cryptographically secure and could be
  deterministic on some platforms).
  Doing things correctly is error prone and verbose.

* rand() is terrible and should not be used especially in crypto code.
2018-05-31 17:54:43 +02:00