File

util/random.lua @ 12031:87bc26f23d9b

util.format: Escape invalid UTF-8 by passing trough serialization Should prevent invalid UTF-8 from making it into the logs, which can cause trouble with terminals or log viewers or other tools, such as when grep determines that log files are binary.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:48:45 +0100
parent 10016:af8c514e5cf7
child 12446:e54b8a5e35ad
line wrap: on
line source

-- 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
		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";
};