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util/random.lua @ 13211:4d4f9e42bcf8

moduleapi: Add :get_option_integer() Many options in Prosody that are treated as numbers don't make sense as floats, e.g. sizes and limits measured in bytes. Simplified implementation based on an earlier attempt dating back to 2020
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Mon, 17 Jul 2023 00:09:41 +0200
parent 12975:d10957394a3c
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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";
};