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util/random.lua @ 11539:3413fea9e6db 0.11

util.startup: Set more aggressive defaults for GC Testing has demonstrated that the default GC parameters are not sufficient to prevent runaway memory growth when running under Lua 5.2 and Lua 5.3. Setting the GC speed to 500 was tested on Lua versions 5.1->5.4 and did not display unbounded memory growth.
author Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>
date Fri, 07 May 2021 16:41:39 +0100 (2021-05-07)
parent 10016:af8c514e5cf7
child 12446:e54b8a5e35ad
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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, "util.crand");
if ok 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";
};