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// Copyright 2020 The Pigweed Authors
//
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//
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#pragma once
#include <cstdint>
#include <cstring>
#include <span>
#include "pw_bytes/span.h"
#include "pw_random/random.h"
#include "pw_status/status_with_size.h"
namespace pw::random {
// This is the "xorshift*" algorithm which is a bit stronger than plain XOR
// shift thanks to the nonlinear transformation at the end (multiplication).
//
// See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorshift
//
// This random generator is NOT cryptographically secure, and incorporates
// pseudo-random generation to extrapolate any true injected entropy. The
// distribution is not guaranteed to be uniform.
class XorShiftStarRng64 : public RandomGenerator {
public:
XorShiftStarRng64(uint64_t initial_seed) : state_(initial_seed) {}
// This generator uses entropy-seeded PRNG to never exhaust its random number
// pool.
StatusWithSize Get(ByteSpan dest) final {
const size_t bytes_written = dest.size_bytes();
while (!dest.empty()) {
uint64_t random = Regenerate();
size_t copy_size = std::min(dest.size_bytes(), sizeof(state_));
std::memcpy(dest.data(), &random, copy_size);
dest = dest.subspan(copy_size);
}
return StatusWithSize(bytes_written);
}
// Entropy is injected by rotating the state by the number of entropy bits
// before xoring the entropy with the current state. This ensures seeding
// the random value with single bits will progressively fill the state with
// more entropy.
void InjectEntropyBits(uint32_t data, uint_fast8_t num_bits) final {
if (num_bits == 0) {
return;
} else if (num_bits > 32) {
num_bits = 32;
}
// Rotate state.
uint64_t untouched_state = state_ >> (kNumStateBits - num_bits);
state_ = untouched_state | (state_ << num_bits);
// Zero-out all irrelevant bits, then XOR entropy into state.
uint32_t mask = (1 << num_bits) - 1;
state_ ^= (data & mask);
}
private:
// Calculate and return the next value based on the "xorshift*" algorithm
uint64_t Regenerate() {
// State must be nonzero, or the algorithm will get stuck and always return
// zero.
if (state_ == 0) {
state_--;
}
state_ ^= state_ >> 12;
state_ ^= state_ << 25;
state_ ^= state_ >> 27;
return state_ * kMultConst;
}
uint64_t state_;
static constexpr uint8_t kNumStateBits = sizeof(state_) * 8;
// For information on why this constant was selected, see:
// https://www.jstatsoft.org/article/view/v008i14
// http://vigna.di.unimi.it/ftp/papers/xorshift.pdf
static constexpr uint64_t kMultConst = 0x2545F4914F6CDD1D;
};
} // namespace pw::random