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view util/id.lua @ 12110:b5b799a2a10c
util.id: Adjust entropy levels, with rationales
Modules using ids for logging should not need the now pretty large
medium one.
| author | Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se> |
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| date | Thu, 02 Dec 2021 01:14:55 +0100 |
| parents | 9546c629289b |
| children | f8d280215633 |
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-- Prosody IM -- Copyright (C) 2008-2017 Matthew Wild -- Copyright (C) 2008-2017 Waqas Hussain -- Copyright (C) 2008-2017 Kim Alvefur -- -- This project is MIT/X11 licensed. Please see the -- COPYING file in the source package for more information. -- local s_gsub = string.gsub; local random_bytes = require "util.random".bytes; local base64_encode = require "util.encodings".base64.encode; local b64url = { ["+"] = "-", ["/"] = "_", ["="] = "" }; local function b64url_random(len) return (s_gsub(base64_encode(random_bytes(len)), "[+/=]", b64url)); end return { -- sizes divisible by 3 fit nicely into base64 without padding== -- close to 8 bytes, should be good enough for relatively short lived or uses -- scoped by host or users, half the size of an uuid short = function() return b64url_random(9); end; -- more entropy than uuid at 2/3 the size -- should be okay for globally scoped ids or security token medium = function() return b64url_random(18); end; -- as long as an uuid but MOAR entropy long = function() return b64url_random(27); end; -- pick your own adventure custom = function (size) return function () return b64url_random(size); end; end; }
