rand/rngs/

reseeding.rs

// Copyright 2018 Developers of the Rand project.
// Copyright 2013 The Rust Project Developers.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
// https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
// <LICENSE-MIT or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
// except according to those terms.

//! A wrapper around another PRNG that reseeds it after it
//! generates a certain number of random bytes.

use core::mem::size_of_val;

use rand_core::block::{BlockRng, BlockRngCore, CryptoBlockRng};
use rand_core::{CryptoRng, RngCore, SeedableRng, TryCryptoRng, TryRngCore};

/// A wrapper around any PRNG that implements [`BlockRngCore`], that adds the
/// ability to reseed it.
///
/// `ReseedingRng` reseeds the underlying PRNG in the following cases:
///
/// - On a manual call to [`reseed()`].
/// - After `clone()`, the clone will be reseeded on first use.
/// - After the PRNG has generated a configurable number of random bytes.
///
/// # When should reseeding after a fixed number of generated bytes be used?
///
/// Reseeding after a fixed number of generated bytes is never strictly
/// *necessary*. Cryptographic PRNGs don't have a limited number of bytes they
/// can output, or at least not a limit reachable in any practical way. There is
/// no such thing as 'running out of entropy'.
///
/// Occasionally reseeding can be seen as some form of 'security in depth'. Even
/// if in the future a cryptographic weakness is found in the CSPRNG being used,
/// or a flaw in the implementation, occasionally reseeding should make
/// exploiting it much more difficult or even impossible.
///
/// Use [`ReseedingRng::new`] with a `threshold` of `0` to disable reseeding
/// after a fixed number of generated bytes.
///
/// # Error handling
///
/// Although unlikely, reseeding the wrapped PRNG can fail. `ReseedingRng` will
/// never panic but try to handle the error intelligently through some
/// combination of retrying and delaying reseeding until later.
/// If handling the source error fails `ReseedingRng` will continue generating
/// data from the wrapped PRNG without reseeding.
///
/// Manually calling [`reseed()`] will not have this retry or delay logic, but
/// reports the error.
///
/// # Example
///
/// ```
/// use rand::prelude::*;
/// use rand_chacha::ChaCha20Core; // Internal part of ChaChaRng that
///                              // implements BlockRngCore
/// use rand::rngs::OsRng;
/// use rand::rngs::ReseedingRng;
///
/// let mut reseeding_rng = ReseedingRng::<ChaCha20Core, _>::new(0, OsRng).unwrap();
///
/// println!("{}", reseeding_rng.random::<u64>());
///
/// let mut cloned_rng = reseeding_rng.clone();
/// assert!(reseeding_rng.random::<u64>() != cloned_rng.random::<u64>());
/// ```
///
/// [`BlockRngCore`]: rand_core::block::BlockRngCore
/// [`ReseedingRng::new`]: ReseedingRng::new
/// [`reseed()`]: ReseedingRng::reseed
#[derive(Debug)]
pub struct ReseedingRng<R, Rsdr>(BlockRng<ReseedingCore<R, Rsdr>>)
where
    R: BlockRngCore + SeedableRng,
    Rsdr: TryRngCore;

impl<R, Rsdr> ReseedingRng<R, Rsdr>
where
    R: BlockRngCore + SeedableRng,
    Rsdr: TryRngCore,
{
    /// Create a new `ReseedingRng` from an existing PRNG, combined with a RNG
    /// to use as reseeder.
    ///
    /// `threshold` sets the number of generated bytes after which to reseed the
    /// PRNG. Set it to zero to never reseed based on the number of generated
    /// values.
    pub fn new(threshold: u64, reseeder: Rsdr) -> Result<Self, Rsdr::Error> {
        Ok(ReseedingRng(BlockRng::new(ReseedingCore::new(
            threshold, reseeder,
        )?)))
    }

    /// Immediately reseed the generator
    ///
    /// This discards any remaining random data in the cache.
    pub fn reseed(&mut self) -> Result<(), Rsdr::Error> {
        self.0.reset();
        self.0.core.reseed()
    }
}

// TODO: this should be implemented for any type where the inner type
// implements RngCore, but we can't specify that because ReseedingCore is private
impl<R, Rsdr> RngCore for ReseedingRng<R, Rsdr>
where
    R: BlockRngCore<Item = u32> + SeedableRng,
    Rsdr: TryRngCore,
{
    #[inline(always)]
    fn next_u32(&mut self) -> u32 {
        self.0.next_u32()
    }

    #[inline(always)]
    fn next_u64(&mut self) -> u64 {
        self.0.next_u64()
    }

    fn fill_bytes(&mut self, dest: &mut [u8]) {
        self.0.fill_bytes(dest)
    }
}

impl<R, Rsdr> Clone for ReseedingRng<R, Rsdr>
where
    R: BlockRngCore + SeedableRng + Clone,
    Rsdr: TryRngCore + Clone,
{
    fn clone(&self) -> ReseedingRng<R, Rsdr> {
        // Recreating `BlockRng` seems easier than cloning it and resetting
        // the index.
        ReseedingRng(BlockRng::new(self.0.core.clone()))
    }
}

impl<R, Rsdr> CryptoRng for ReseedingRng<R, Rsdr>
where
    R: BlockRngCore<Item = u32> + SeedableRng + CryptoBlockRng,
    Rsdr: TryCryptoRng,
{
}

#[derive(Debug)]
struct ReseedingCore<R, Rsdr> {
    inner: R,
    reseeder: Rsdr,
    threshold: i64,
    bytes_until_reseed: i64,
}

impl<R, Rsdr> BlockRngCore for ReseedingCore<R, Rsdr>
where
    R: BlockRngCore + SeedableRng,
    Rsdr: TryRngCore,
{
    type Item = <R as BlockRngCore>::Item;
    type Results = <R as BlockRngCore>::Results;

    fn generate(&mut self, results: &mut Self::Results) {
        if self.bytes_until_reseed <= 0 {
            // We get better performance by not calling only `reseed` here
            // and continuing with the rest of the function, but by directly
            // returning from a non-inlined function.
            return self.reseed_and_generate(results);
        }
        let num_bytes = size_of_val(results.as_ref());
        self.bytes_until_reseed -= num_bytes as i64;
        self.inner.generate(results);
    }
}

impl<R, Rsdr> ReseedingCore<R, Rsdr>
where
    R: BlockRngCore + SeedableRng,
    Rsdr: TryRngCore,
{
    /// Create a new `ReseedingCore`.
    ///
    /// `threshold` is the maximum number of bytes produced by
    /// [`BlockRngCore::generate`] before attempting reseeding.
    fn new(threshold: u64, mut reseeder: Rsdr) -> Result<Self, Rsdr::Error> {
        // Because generating more values than `i64::MAX` takes centuries on
        // current hardware, we just clamp to that value.
        // Also we set a threshold of 0, which indicates no limit, to that
        // value.
        let threshold = if threshold == 0 {
            i64::MAX
        } else if threshold <= i64::MAX as u64 {
            threshold as i64
        } else {
            i64::MAX
        };

        let inner = R::try_from_rng(&mut reseeder)?;

        Ok(ReseedingCore {
            inner,
            reseeder,
            threshold,
            bytes_until_reseed: threshold,
        })
    }

    /// Reseed the internal PRNG.
    fn reseed(&mut self) -> Result<(), Rsdr::Error> {
        R::try_from_rng(&mut self.reseeder).map(|result| {
            self.bytes_until_reseed = self.threshold;
            self.inner = result
        })
    }

    #[inline(never)]
    fn reseed_and_generate(&mut self, results: &mut <Self as BlockRngCore>::Results) {
        trace!("Reseeding RNG (periodic reseed)");

        let num_bytes = size_of_val(results.as_ref());

        if let Err(e) = self.reseed() {
            warn!("Reseeding RNG failed: {}", e);
            let _ = e;
        }

        self.bytes_until_reseed = self.threshold - num_bytes as i64;
        self.inner.generate(results);
    }
}

impl<R, Rsdr> Clone for ReseedingCore<R, Rsdr>
where
    R: BlockRngCore + SeedableRng + Clone,
    Rsdr: TryRngCore + Clone,
{
    fn clone(&self) -> ReseedingCore<R, Rsdr> {
        ReseedingCore {
            inner: self.inner.clone(),
            reseeder: self.reseeder.clone(),
            threshold: self.threshold,
            bytes_until_reseed: 0, // reseed clone on first use
        }
    }
}

impl<R, Rsdr> CryptoBlockRng for ReseedingCore<R, Rsdr>
where
    R: BlockRngCore<Item = u32> + SeedableRng + CryptoBlockRng,
    Rsdr: TryCryptoRng,
{
}

#[cfg(feature = "std_rng")]
#[cfg(test)]
mod test {
    use crate::rngs::mock::StepRng;
    use crate::rngs::std::Core;
    use crate::Rng;

    use super::ReseedingRng;

    #[test]
    fn test_reseeding() {
        let zero = StepRng::new(0, 0);
        let thresh = 1; // reseed every time the buffer is exhausted
        let mut reseeding = ReseedingRng::<Core, _>::new(thresh, zero).unwrap();

        // RNG buffer size is [u32; 64]
        // Debug is only implemented up to length 32 so use two arrays
        let mut buf = ([0u32; 32], [0u32; 32]);
        reseeding.fill(&mut buf.0);
        reseeding.fill(&mut buf.1);
        let seq = buf;
        for _ in 0..10 {
            reseeding.fill(&mut buf.0);
            reseeding.fill(&mut buf.1);
            assert_eq!(buf, seq);
        }
    }

    #[test]
    #[allow(clippy::redundant_clone)]
    fn test_clone_reseeding() {
        let zero = StepRng::new(0, 0);
        let mut rng1 = ReseedingRng::<Core, _>::new(32 * 4, zero).unwrap();

        let first: u32 = rng1.random();
        for _ in 0..10 {
            let _ = rng1.random::<u32>();
        }

        let mut rng2 = rng1.clone();
        assert_eq!(first, rng2.random::<u32>());
    }
}