Distribution range for sending Transaction to inbound and outbound connections

[Thomason222]

Hi,
I would like to know in which files of the Bitcoin core code I can find the Transaction propagation algorithm? The exact thing I need is to know the time distribution, when the transactions are sent to the inbound and outbound connections. I guess it is some uniform distribution or something like that, but need to know the distribution range.

[ranochigo]

It's an exponential distribution. Transactions are relayed through the inv messages, and there are indeed delays to prevent topological analysis. The timing depends on whether it is an inbound and outbound, should be lambda of 5 seconds for inbound connections, 2 for outbound connections.

Relevant code is here for the delay: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/2b260eadf7960290328e13dbdb029fd506105ca4/src/net_processing.cpp#L5784
Function for the exp dist function: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/2b260eadf7960290328e13dbdb029fd506105ca4/src/random.cpp#L764

[Thomason222]

Thank you so much!
Really appreciate.