Use getrandom, simplify OsRng, deprecate EntropyRng #765

dhardy · 2019-04-02T13:07:32Z

Implements #760

This implements several of the mentioned changes. In theory the re-implementation of OsRng can be omitted but I think for most users this will decrease the number of crates required with very little issue; if necessary we can revert this easily later.

This also removes the re-export of JitterRng which is a breaking change. I do not think this will impact many users, and switching to rand_jitter is easy enough for those people.

This does not deprecate FromEntropy, which is simply sugar for from_rng(OsRng).unwrap(). This trait already has some usage. We could move the method to SeedableRng but this requires dependence on getrandom from rand_core; I'm not sure if it is justified.

Review @newpavlov?

dhardy · 2019-04-02T16:49:45Z

@newpavlov the test fails on cloudabi because of this rule in getrandom:

#[cfg(any(
    feature = "std",
    windows, unix,
    target_os = "redox",
    target_arch = "wasm32",
))]
mod error_impls;

This is not the usual no_std support approach, though since we don't have an env var or build-wide cfg item it does make some sense to "guess" whether we're using std. But we still have a std feature; shouldn't we choose one option or the other? Otherwise we see things like this: std support works on common platforms, but fails unexpectedly when testing on other platforms.

newpavlov

Looks good! Though I think we should follow the approach with optional dependency of rand_core on getrandom.

newpavlov · 2019-04-02T17:01:56Z

Cargo.toml

-wasm-bindgen = ["rand_os/wasm-bindgen"]
-stdweb = ["rand_os/stdweb"]
+wasm-bindgen = ["getrandom/wasm-bindgen"]
+stdweb = ["getrandom/stdweb"]


I am not sure if we need to bubble these features. Users can write in application crates getrandom = { version = "*", features = [ .. ] }. Something similar will have to be done if rand is used indirectly via dependencies, which I think will be fairly common.

We do if we don't want to make a breaking change — though we can't ever lose these without a breaking change.

Well, v0.7 is already a breaking release, so we could use this chance to cleanup those features. Though if you want to keep number of breaking changes to a minimum, then it's fine to keep it as-is.

On second thoughts, no, lets keep the feature forwarding. It's convenient for use in our tests and something we might have some other reason to break in the future (hopefully eventually these features won't be needed), so there's not much sense in a breaking change to achieve so little.

src/lib.rs

src/rngs/os.rs

newpavlov · 2019-04-02T17:08:12Z

src/rngs/os.rs

+        if dest.len() == 0 { return Ok(()); }
+
+        getrandom(dest).map_err(|e|
+            Error::with_cause(ErrorKind::Unavailable, "OsRng failed", e))


Hm, I thought the old error will be replaced with getrandom::Error, no?

Possibly, yes, but not as part of this PR, hence I hacked in a map for now.

Would you like to look into this?

Yeah, I can do it a bit later.

newpavlov · 2019-04-02T17:11:22Z

src/rngs/os.rs

+    fn try_fill_bytes(&mut self, dest: &mut [u8]) -> Result<(), Error> {
+        // Some systems do not support reading 0 random bytes.
+        // (And why waste a system call?)
+        if dest.len() == 0 { return Ok(()); }


I think this branching should be removed as it does not follow the principle of least astonishment. Systems which do not support reading 0 bytes should be handled on getrandom level. Let's say someone will want to first check if OsRng works, why force user to use 1 byte array?

True, this should be done as part of getrandom if at all. I don't agree that retrieving 0 bytes can be considered a test of readiness however (precisely because this kind of code may exist).

Should we add a test for 0-byte reads to getrandom?

Should we add a test for 0-byte reads to getrandom?

Yes, I think we should.

newpavlov · 2019-04-02T17:12:42Z

rand_os/src/lib.rs

-        Ok(())
+
+        getrandom(dest).map_err(|e|
+            Error::with_cause(ErrorKind::Unavailable, "OsRng failed", e))


See rand::OsRng comments.

newpavlov · 2019-04-02T17:15:13Z

Hm, I thought that cloudabi is considered unix. Worth to create rust-lang/rust issue? Ideally I would like to automatically enable std feature for std-capable target, but unfortunately AFAIK cargo does not provide the required functionality.

I will send a PR with the fix.

UPD: Ups, I've accidentally commited the fix directly instead of creating a PR.

src/rngs/os.rs

vks · 2019-04-03T05:57:28Z

src/lib.rs

@@ -480,35 +479,16 @@ impl_as_byte_slice_arrays!(!div 4096, N,N,N,N,N,N,N,);
 /// [`OsRng`]: rngs::OsRng
 #[cfg(feature="std")]
 pub trait FromEntropy: SeedableRng {


Do we want to deprecate this trait as well?

That is the question from the top comment (whoops, ~~EntropyRng~~ → FromEntropy).

dhardy · 2019-04-03T14:16:48Z

UPD: Ups, I've accidentally commited the fix directly instead of creating a PR.

Hah, okay. ~~Lets remove the WASM-feature forwarding as suggested and re-run the tests.~~ Rebased.

This is controversial: a small amount of code redundancy to avoid an extra import.

This is a breaking change for anyone using rngs::JitterRng; such users should switch to rand_jitter::JitterRng.

src/rngs/os.rs

dhardy · 2019-04-04T09:51:29Z

Okay, I rewrote the rngs module documentation completely (a little shorter and hopefully clearer), as well as adding the requested usage example.

I also pushed a hack to pull getrandom from master, to test @newpavlov's fix.

Fix rand_os example

dhardy · 2019-04-05T15:29:51Z

Hopefully this is good to go now (not all questions resolved, but follow-up PRs allowed).

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Replace rand_os implementation with shim around getrandom

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This is controversial: a small amount of code redundancy to avoid an extra import.

Simplify and deprecate EntropyRng

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Remove dependence on rand_jitter

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This is a breaking change for anyone using rngs::JitterRng; such users should switch to rand_jitter::JitterRng.

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