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author | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2010-06-16 03:54:59 +0000 |
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committer | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2010-06-16 03:54:59 +0000 |
commit | aa0c77746be858f094debf0d96e87c02908e8dc3 (patch) | |
tree | 98d66a941f476ad035ffc18138998b4bc1dfb8b9 /src/entropy/entropy_src.h | |
parent | 85780f6bbe02d7abd573f5b47bf9e79c611f5022 (diff) |
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1 files changed, 40 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/entropy/entropy_src.h b/src/entropy/entropy_src.h index 63fd6a1f7..898d650ce 100644 --- a/src/entropy/entropy_src.h +++ b/src/entropy/entropy_src.h @@ -20,23 +20,40 @@ namespace Botan { class BOTAN_DLL Entropy_Accumulator { public: + /** + * Initialize an Entropy_Accumulator + * @param goal is how many bits we would like to collect + */ Entropy_Accumulator(u32bit goal) : entropy_goal(goal), collected_bits(0) {} virtual ~Entropy_Accumulator() {} /** - @return cached I/O buffer for repeated polls + * Get a cached I/O buffer (purely for minimizing allocation + * overhead to polls) + * + * @param size requested size for the I/O buffer + * @return cached I/O buffer for repeated polls */ MemoryRegion<byte>& get_io_buffer(u32bit size) { io_buffer.resize(size); return io_buffer; } + /** + * @return number of bits collected so far + */ u32bit bits_collected() const { return static_cast<u32bit>(collected_bits); } + /** + * @return if our polling goal has been achieved + */ bool polling_goal_achieved() const { return (collected_bits >= entropy_goal); } + /** + * @return how many bits we need to reach our polling goal + */ u32bit desired_remaining_bits() const { if(collected_bits >= entropy_goal) @@ -44,12 +61,25 @@ class BOTAN_DLL Entropy_Accumulator return static_cast<u32bit>(entropy_goal - collected_bits); } + /** + * Add entropy to the accumulator + * @param bytes the input bytes + * @param length specifies how many bytes the input is + * @param entropy_bits_per_byte is a best guess at how much + * entropy per byte is in this input + */ void add(const void* bytes, u32bit length, double entropy_bits_per_byte) { add_bytes(reinterpret_cast<const byte*>(bytes), length); collected_bits += entropy_bits_per_byte * length; } + /** + * Add entropy to the accumulator + * @param v is some value + * @param entropy_bits_per_byte is a best guess at how much + * entropy per byte is in this input + */ template<typename T> void add(const T& v, double entropy_bits_per_byte) { @@ -88,8 +118,17 @@ class BOTAN_DLL Entropy_Accumulator_BufferedComputation : public Entropy_Accumul class BOTAN_DLL EntropySource { public: + /** + * @return name identifying this entropy source + */ virtual std::string name() const = 0; + + /** + * Perform an entropy gathering poll + * @param accum is an accumulator object that will be given entropy + */ virtual void poll(Entropy_Accumulator& accum) = 0; + virtual ~EntropySource() {} }; |