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util/random.lua @ 12630:781772c8b6d9

mod_mam: Store archives with sub-second precision timestamps Changes sub-second part of example timestamp to .5 in order to avoid floating point issues. Some clients use timestamps when ordering messages which can lead to messages having the same timestamp ending up in the wrong order. It would be better to preserve the order messages are sent in, which is the order they were stored in.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Sun, 14 Aug 2022 17:28:31 +0200
parent 12446:e54b8a5e35ad
child 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, "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";
};