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util/random.lua @ 9091:519dea077d20

util.dataforms: Allow passing dynamically generated options as values (fixes traceback) This is awkward but there’s currently no better way to do this, short of dynamically generating the entire form each time
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Fri, 03 Aug 2018 22:05:40 +0200
parent 8243:292f61d9d30a
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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)
	return urandom:read(n);
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";
};