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util.random: Use /dev/urandom
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Wed, 06 Jan 2016 03:28:56 +0100
parents c3011ab945b8
children ac920b0f9eae
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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 urandom = assert(io.open("/dev/urandom", "r+"));

local function seed(x)
	urandom:write(x);
	urandom:flush();
end

local function bytes(n)
	return urandom:read(n);
end

return {
	seed = seed;
	bytes = bytes;
};