Fixes https://github.com/tendermint/tmlibs/issues/145
Fixes https://github.com/tendermint/tmlibs/issues/146
The code in here has been fragile when it comes to nil
but these edge cases were never tested, although they've
showed up in the wild and were only noticed because
the reporter actually read the logs otherwise
we'd have never known.
This changes covers some of these cases and adds some tests.
Lesson articulated by @jaekwon on why we need 80 bits
of entropy at least before we can think of cryptographic
safety. math/rand's seed is a max of 64 bits so can never
be cryptographically secure.
Also added some benchmarks for RandBytes
Fixes https://github.com/tendermint/tmlibs/issues/99
Updates https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/973
Removed usages of math/rand.DefaultSource in favour of our
own source that's seeded with a completely random source
and is safe for use in concurrent in multiple goroutines.
Also extend some functionality that the stdlib exposes such as
* RandPerm
* RandIntn
* RandInt31
* RandInt63
Also added an integration test whose purpose is to be run as
a consistency check to ensure that our results never repeat
hence that our internal PRNG is uniquely seeded each time.
This integration test can be triggered by setting environment variable:
`TENDERMINT_INTEGRATION_TESTS=true`
for example
```shell
TENDERMINT_INTEGRATION_TESTS=true go test
```
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@melekes
yeah, bool is superfluous
@ethanfrey
If I remember correctly when I was writing test code, if I call Start() on a Service that is already running, it returns (false, nil). Only if I try to legitimately start it, but it fails in startup do I get an error.
The distinction is quite important to make it safe for reentrant calls. The other approach would be to have a special error type like ErrAlreadyStarted, then check for that in your code explicitly. Kind of like if I make a db call in gorm, and get an error, I check if it is a RecordNotFound error, or whether there was a real error with the db query.
@melekes
Ah, I see. Thanks. I must say I like ErrAlreadyStarted approach more (not just in Golang)
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