fanquake 6d859cbd79 Merge bitcoin/bitcoin#24021: Rename and move PoissonNextSend functions ...

9b8dcb25b5 [net processing] Rename PoissonNextSendInbound to NextInvToInbounds (John Newbery)
ea99f5d01e [net processing] Move PoissonNextSendInbound to PeerManager (John Newbery)
bb060746df scripted-diff: replace PoissonNextSend with GetExponentialRand (John Newbery)
03cfa1b603 [refactor] Use uint64_t and std namespace in PoissonNextSend (John Newbery)
9e64d69bf7 [move] Move PoissonNextSend to src/random and update comment (John Newbery)

Pull request description:

  `PoissonNextSend` and `PoissonNextSendInbound` are used in the p2p code to obfuscate various regularly occurring processes, in order to make it harder for others to get timing-based information deterministically.

  The naming of these functions has been confusing to several people (including myself, see also #23347) because the resulting random timestamps don't follow a Poisson distribution but an exponential distribution (related to events in a Poisson process, hence the name). This PR
  - moves `PoissonNextSend()` out of `net` to `random` and renames it to `GetExponentialRand()`
  - moves `PoissonNextSendInbound()` out of `CConnman` to `PeerManager` and renames it to `NextInvToInbounds()`
  - adds documentation for these functions

  This is work by jnewbery - due to him being less active currently, I opened the PR and will address feedback.

ACKs for top commit:
  jnewbery:
    ACK 9b8dcb25b5
  hebasto:
    ACK 9b8dcb25b5, I have reviewed the code and it looks OK, I agree it can be merged.
  theStack:
    ACK 9b8dcb25b5 📊

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