The intention for this package is to provide a combination of the
security of crypto/rand and the convenience of math/rand. It should be
the first choice of random data unless ultimate performance is required
and the usage is provably irrelevant from a security standpoint.
GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/3186
The math/rand package contains lots of convenient functions, for example
to get an integer in a specified range without running into issues
caused by just truncating a number from a different distribution and so
on. But it's insecure, and we use if for things that benefit from being
more secure like session IDs, CSRF tokens and API keys.
This implements a math/rand.Source that reads from crypto/rand.Reader,
this bridging the gap between them. It also updates our RandomString to
use the new source, thus giving us secure session IDs and CSRF tokens.
Some future work remains:
- Fix API keys by making the generation in the UI use this code as well
- Refactor out these things into an actual random package, and audit
our use of randomness everywhere
I'll leave both of those for the future in order to not muddy the waters
on this diff...
GitHub-Pull-Request: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/pull/3180
