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Willy Tarreau de266d9a99 BUG/MEDIUM: tools: insert an XXH64 layer on the PRNG output
Consuming randoms in pairs directly exposes the internal PRNG's state
on moderately idle system. It can allow to predict next (or previous)
UUIDs, QUIC retry tokens, and WS keys for example. Let's insert an XXH64
call on the ha_random64() output to avoid this. We expand the boot seed
as the secret at boot, and use now_ns as the seed for each call. The
original ha_random64() function was renamed to ha_random64_internal()
for use cases where it's not a problem to directly use the internal
state.

The performance loss is only measurable when single-threaded. It drops
from 7.32M UUID per second to 7.16M. Above that there is no longer any
difference due to the DWCAS loop which reaches up to 98.5% CPU at 20
threads.

This will need to be backported to stable releases after a period of
observation.
2026-05-25 20:50:18 +02:00
.github CI: github: add DEBUG_STRICT=2 to ASAN jobs 2026-04-30 17:46:30 +02:00
addons BUILD: 51d.c: cleanup, fix preprocessor ifdefs 2026-05-13 17:00:20 +02:00
admin CLEANUP: fix typos and spelling in comments and documentation 2026-03-30 09:24:19 +02:00
dev CLEANUP: fix typos and spelling in comments and documentation 2026-03-30 09:24:19 +02:00
doc MINOR: config: shm-stats-file is no longer experimental 2026-05-21 08:50:20 +02:00
examples MEDIUM: mux_quic: rename qmux traces to qcm 2026-05-13 16:23:58 +02:00
include BUG/MEDIUM: tools: insert an XXH64 layer on the PRNG output 2026-05-25 20:50:18 +02:00
reg-tests BUG/MINOR: h1: Don't mask websocket protocol if multiple protocols used 2026-05-19 17:50:50 +02:00
scripts SCRIPTS: announce-release: add a link to the OpenTelemetry filter 2026-05-08 12:05:09 +02:00
src BUG/MEDIUM: tools: insert an XXH64 layer on the PRNG output 2026-05-25 20:50:18 +02:00
tests TESTS: quic: add unit-tests for QUIC TX part 2025-09-08 14:49:03 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-3 2025-10-09 14:06:48 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES CLEANUP: tree-wide: fix typos in user-invisible files 2026-05-13 17:03:48 +02:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev13 2026-05-20 17:46:36 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL DOC: update supported gcc and openssl versions in INSTALL 2026-05-20 17:45:23 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile BUILD: traces: add USE_TRACE allowing to disable traces 2026-05-20 11:46:43 +02:00
README.md CI: github: add cross-zoo.yml in README.md 2026-04-20 11:47:20 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev13 2026-05-20 17:46:36 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.4-dev13 2026-05-20 17:46:36 +02:00

HAProxy

AWS-LC Illumos NetBSD CrossCompile FreeBSD VTest

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HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for:

  • INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  • BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  • LICENSE for the project's license
  • CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.