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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> |
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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"; };