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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 seed()
+end
+
+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;
+};