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util/random.lua @ 12807:f0f7b0c61465

mod_s2s: Avoid sending too large stanzas Just dropping them isn't great but hopefully something more sensible can be done in the future. Will need work to ensure that this signal is handled correctly in sending modules etc.
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:30:54 +0100 (2021-03-16)
parent 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 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";
};