util/random.lua
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
Sun, 24 Mar 2024 20:39:42 +0100
changeset 13466 720aed1f5cf2
parent 12979 d10957394a3c
permissions -rw-r--r--
util.startup: Check root after detecting platform and reading config (thanks SigmaTel71) Ensures that startup.detect_platform() runs so know whether to use the POSIX method of checking the current user or something else. Also after reading the config so we know whether the root override setting is set.

-- 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, "prosody.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";
};