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util/random.lua @ 10224:94e341dee51c

core.certmanager: Move EECDH ciphers before EDH in default cipherstring The original intent of having kEDH before kEECDH was that if a `dhparam` file was specified, this would be interpreted as a preference by the admin for old and well-tested Diffie-Hellman key agreement over newer elliptic curve ones. Otherwise the faster elliptic curve ciphersuites would be preferred. This didn't really work as intended since this affects the ClientHello on outgoing s2s connections, leading to some servers using poorly configured kEDH. With Debian shipping OpenSSL settings that enforce a higher security level, this caused interoperability problems with servers that use DH params smaller than 2048 bits. E.g. jabber.org at the time of this writing has 1024 bit DH params. MattJ says > Curves have won, and OpenSSL is less weird about them now
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Sun, 25 Aug 2019 20:22:35 +0200
parent 10016:af8c514e5cf7
child 12446:e54b8a5e35ad
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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
		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";
};