wallet: add --extra-entropy command line flag

It lets the user add custom entropy to the PRNG.
It does this by hashing the new data and xoring the resulting
hash with the PRNG state.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp b/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp
index f25e9ad97..d382e5f92 100644
--- a/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet/wallet2.cpp
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ struct options {
   const command_line::arg_descriptor<std::string> tx_notify = { "tx-notify" , "Run a program for each new incoming transaction, '%s' will be replaced by the transaction hash" , "" };
   const command_line::arg_descriptor<bool> no_dns = {"no-dns", tools::wallet2::tr("Do not use DNS"), false};
   const command_line::arg_descriptor<bool> offline = {"offline", tools::wallet2::tr("Do not connect to a daemon, nor use DNS"), false};
+  const command_line::arg_descriptor<std::string> extra_entropy = {"extra-entropy", tools::wallet2::tr("File containing extra entropy to initialize the PRNG (any data, aim for 256 bits of entropy to be useful, wihch typically means more than 256 bits of data)")};
 };
 
 void do_prepare_file_names(const std::string& file_path, std::string& keys_file, std::string& wallet_file, std::string &mms_file)
@@ -474,6 +475,15 @@ std::unique_ptr<tools::wallet2> make_basic(const boost::program_options::variabl
   if (command_line::get_arg(vm, opts.offline))
     wallet->set_offline();
 
+  const std::string extra_entropy = command_line::get_arg(vm, opts.extra_entropy);
+  if (!extra_entropy.empty())
+  {
+    std::string data;
+    THROW_WALLET_EXCEPTION_IF(!epee::file_io_utils::load_file_to_string(extra_entropy, data),
+        tools::error::wallet_internal_error, "Failed to load extra entropy from " + extra_entropy);
+    add_extra_entropy_thread_safe(data.data(), data.size());
+  }
+
   try
   {
     if (!command_line::is_arg_defaulted(vm, opts.tx_notify))
@@ -1198,6 +1208,7 @@ void wallet2::init_options(boost::program_options::options_description& desc_par
   command_line::add_arg(desc_params, opts.tx_notify);
   command_line::add_arg(desc_params, opts.no_dns);
   command_line::add_arg(desc_params, opts.offline);
+  command_line::add_arg(desc_params, opts.extra_entropy);
 }
 
 std::pair<std::unique_ptr<wallet2>, tools::password_container> wallet2::make_from_json(const boost::program_options::variables_map& vm, bool unattended, const std::string& json_file, const std::function<boost::optional<tools::password_container>(const char *, bool)> &password_prompter)