github.com/kjdelisle/consul@v1.4.5/lib/rand.go (about)

     1  package lib
     2  
     3  import (
     4  	crand "crypto/rand"
     5  	"math"
     6  	"math/big"
     7  	"math/rand"
     8  	"sync"
     9  	"time"
    10  )
    11  
    12  var (
    13  	once sync.Once
    14  
    15  	// SeededSecurely is set to true if a cryptographically secure seed
    16  	// was used to initialize rand.  When false, the start time is used
    17  	// as a seed.
    18  	SeededSecurely bool
    19  )
    20  
    21  // SeedMathRand provides weak, but guaranteed seeding, which is better than
    22  // running with Go's default seed of 1.  A call to SeedMathRand() is expected
    23  // to be called via init(), but never a second time.
    24  func SeedMathRand() {
    25  	once.Do(func() {
    26  		n, err := crand.Int(crand.Reader, big.NewInt(math.MaxInt64))
    27  		if err != nil {
    28  			rand.Seed(time.Now().UTC().UnixNano())
    29  			return
    30  		}
    31  		rand.Seed(n.Int64())
    32  		SeededSecurely = true
    33  	})
    34  }