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prosody/util/random.lua

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-- Prosody IM
-- Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Matthew Wild
-- Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Waqas Hussain
--
-- This project is MIT/X11 licensed. Please see the
-- COPYING file in the source package for more information.
--
local ok, crand = pcall(require, "prosody.util.crand");
if ok and pcall(crand.bytes, 1) then return crand; end
local urandom, urandom_err = io.open("/dev/urandom", "r");
local function bytes(n)
local data, err = urandom:read(n);
if not data then
if err then
error("Unable to retrieve data from secure random number generator (/dev/urandom): "..tostring(err));
else
error("Secure random number generator (/dev/urandom) returned an end-of-file condition");
end
end
return data;
end
if not urandom then
function bytes()
error("Unable to obtain a secure random number generator, please see https://prosody.im/doc/random ("..urandom_err..")");
end
end
return {
bytes = bytes;
_source = "/dev/urandom";
};