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Informational 19 Bitcoin

global: replace randombytes_buf() with randbytes() wrapper.

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What the developer wrote

Authored by Rusty Russell

65/100 · Adequate
global: replace randombytes_buf() with randbytes() wrapper.

This allows us to override it for deterministic results.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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The short version

What changed, and why it matters

This change is a straightforward internal cleanup: it replaces direct calls to the cryptographic library's random-byte function (randombytes_buf from libsodium) with a project-specific wrapper called randbytes(). The wrapper currently does the same thing, but having it in one place makes it easier to swap in a deterministic (predictable) random source for testing in the future. There is no direct security bug introduced by this commit itself, and no evidence it weakens real-world randomness.

Recommended action

No urgent action. Treat as normal refactoring. If reviewing follow-up work, verify that any deterministic randbytes_() override is used only in test/fuzz builds and never compiled into production binaries, and that the wrapper continues to use a CSPRNG (e.g., libsodium's randombytes_buf) for live code.

Security signals we found

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Refactoring of cryptographic randomness API

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New wrapper enables future deterministic override in tests

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No change to production entropy source in this commit

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Makefile lint rule now discourages direct randombytes_buf() usage

Risk score

Why this scored 19/100

Our methodology →
Potential impact 2/30
Exploitability 1/25
Stealth signal 1/15
Affected reach 3/15
Confidence 8/10
Evidence quality 4/5
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