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ce8094246ee95232e9d84f7e37f3c0a43ef587ce random: replace construct/assign with explicit Reseed() (Pieter Wuille)
2ae392d561ecfdf81855e6df6b9ad3d8843cdfa2 random: use LogError for init failure (Pieter Wuille)
97e16f57042cab07e5e73f6bed19feec2006e4f7 tests: make fuzz tests (mostly) deterministic with fixed seed (Pieter Wuille)
2c91330dd68064e402e8eceea3df9474bb7afd48 random: cleanup order, comments, static (Pieter Wuille)
8e31cf9c9b5e9fdd01e8b220c08a3ccde5cf584c net, net_processing: use existing RNG objects more (Pieter Wuille)
d5fcbe966bc501db8bf6a3809633f0b82e6ae547 random: improve precision of MakeExponentiallyDistributed (Pieter Wuille)
cfb0dfe2cf0b46f3ea9e62992ade989860f086c8 random: convert GetExponentialRand into rand_exp_duration (Pieter Wuille)
4eaa239dc3e189369d59144b524cb2808cbef8c3 random: convert GetRand{Micros,Millis} into randrange (Pieter Wuille)
82de1b80d95fc9447e64c098dcadb6b8a2f1f2ee net: use GetRandMicros for cache expiration (Pieter Wuille)
ddc184d999d7e1a87efaf6bcb222186f0dcd87ec random: get rid of GetRand by inlining (Pieter Wuille)
e2d1f84858485650ff743753ffa5c679f210a992 random: make GetRand() support entire range (incl. max) (Pieter Wuille)
810cdf6b4e12a1fdace7998d75b4daf8b67d7028 tests: overhaul deterministic test randomness (Pieter Wuille)
6cfdc5b104caf9952393f9dac2a36539d964077f random: convert XoRoShiRo128PlusPlus into full RNG (Pieter Wuille)
8cc2f45065fc1864f879248d1e1444588e27076b random: move XoRoShiRo128PlusPlus into random module (Pieter Wuille)
8f5ac0d0b608bdf396d8f2d758a792f869c2cd2a xoroshiro128plusplus: drop comment about nonexisting copy() (Pieter Wuille)
8924f5120f66269c04633167def01f82c74ea730 random: modernize XoRoShiRo128PlusPlus a bit (Pieter Wuille)
ddb7d26cfd96c1f626def4755e0e1b5aaac94d3e random: add RandomMixin::randbits with compile-known bits (Pieter Wuille)
21ce9d8658fed0d3e4552e8b02a6902cb31c572e random: Improve RandomMixin::randbits (Pieter Wuille)
9b14d3d2da05f74ffb6a2ac20b7d9efefbe29634 random: refactor: move rand* utilities to RandomMixin (Pieter Wuille)
40dd86fc3b60d7a67a9720a84a685f16e3f05b06 random: use BasicByte concept in randbytes (Pieter Wuille)
27cefc7fd6a6a159779f572f4c3a06170f955ed8 random: add a few noexcepts to FastRandomContext (Pieter Wuille)
b3b382dde202ad508baf553817c5b38fdd2d4a0c random: move rand256() and randbytes() to .h file (Pieter Wuille)
493a2e024e845e623e202e3eefe1cc2010e9b514 random: write rand256() in function of fillrand() (Pieter Wuille)
Pull request description:
This PR contains a number of vaguely-related improvements to the random module.
The specific changes and more detailed rationale is in the commit messages, but the highlights are:
* `XoRoShiRo128PlusPlus` (previously a test-only RNG) moves to random.h and becomes `InsecureRandomContext`, which is even faster than `FastRandomContext` but non-cryptographic. It also gets all helper randomness functions (`randrange`, `fillrand`, ...), making it a lot more succinct to use.
* During tests, **all** randomness is made deterministic (except for `GetStrongRandBytes`) but non-repeating (like `GetRand()` used to be when `g_mock_deterministic_tests` was used), either fixed, or from a random seed (overridden by env var).
* Several infrequently used top-level functions (`GetRandMillis`, `GetRandMicros`, `GetExponentialRand`) are converted into member functions of `FastRandomContext` (and `InsecureRandomContext`).
* `GetRand<T>()` (without argument) can now return the maximum value of the type (previously e.g. `GetRand<uint32_t>()` would never return 0xffffffff).
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