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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;