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authorMatthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>2016-02-01 21:28:07 +0000
committerMatthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com>2016-02-01 21:28:07 +0000
commit11dcbc505b599add9294e27addaa697aa97e1e0c (patch)
treeb1ba3e9f2c4c1b332f4b0264453b7b9c01952163 /util/random.lua
parentbebb4e7b675a3db13263c1946c16b090bcf8f4f5 (diff)
parenta1e077c5e7d4f6d2768c47a6847fbe8eea0f28d8 (diff)
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Merge 0.10->trunk
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-rw-r--r--util/random.lua8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/util/random.lua b/util/random.lua
index 05f36aba..e4b4a700 100644
--- a/util/random.lua
+++ b/util/random.lua
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
-- COPYING file in the source package for more information.
--
-local urandom = assert(io.open("/dev/urandom", "r"));
+local urandom, urandom_err = io.open("/dev/urandom", "r");
local function seed()
end
@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ local function bytes(n)
return urandom:read(n);
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 {
seed = seed;
bytes = bytes;