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util/random.lua @ 10014:5d2f7144fa12 0.11
util.random: Handle unlikely read errors from /dev/urandom (see #1313)
author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
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date | Sat, 18 May 2019 17:28:21 +0200 |
parent | 8243:292f61d9d30a |
child | 10015:8297408db58b |
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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 error("Unable to retrieve data from secure random number generator (/dev/urandom): "..err); 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"; };