Module: SecureRandom

Defined in:
lib/securerandom.rb

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.base64(n = nil) ⇒ Object

SecureRandom.base64 generates a random base64 string.

The argument n specifies the length of the random length. The length of the result string is about 4/3 of n.

If n is not specified, 16 is assumed. It may be larger in future.

If secure random number generator is not available, NotImplementedError is raised.



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# File 'lib/securerandom.rb', line 104

def self.base64(n=nil)
  [random_bytes(n)].pack("m*").delete("\n")
end

.hex(n = nil) ⇒ Object

SecureRandom.hex generates a random hex string.

The argument n specifies the length of the random length. The length of the result string is twice of n.

If n is not specified, 16 is assumed. It may be larger in future.

If secure random number generator is not available, NotImplementedError is raised.



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# File 'lib/securerandom.rb', line 90

def self.hex(n=nil)
  random_bytes(n).unpack("H*")[0]
end

.random_bytes(n = nil) ⇒ Object

SecureRandom.random_bytes generates a random binary string.

The argument n specifies the length of the result string.

If n is not specified, 16 is assumed. It may be larger in future.

If secure random number generator is not available, NotImplementedError is raised.

Raises:

  • (NotImplementedError) 


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# File 'lib/securerandom.rb', line 50

def self.random_bytes(n=nil)
  n ||= 16
  if defined? OpenSSL::Random
    return OpenSSL::Random.random_bytes(n)
  end
  if !defined?(@has_urandom) || @has_urandom
    @has_urandom = false
    flags = File::RDONLY
    flags |= File::NONBLOCK if defined? File::NONBLOCK
    flags |= File::NOCTTY if defined? File::NOCTTY
    flags |= File::NOFOLLOW if defined? File::NOFOLLOW
    begin
      File.open("/dev/urandom", flags) {|f|
        unless f.stat.chardev?
          raise Errno::ENOENT
        end
        @has_urandom = true
        ret = f.readpartial(n)
        if ret.length != n
          raise NotImplementedError, "Unexpected partial read from random device"
        end
        return ret
      }
    rescue Errno::ENOENT
      raise NotImplementedError, "No random device"
    end
  end
  raise NotImplementedError, "No random device"
end

.random_number(n = 0) ⇒ Object

SecureRandom.random_number generates a random number.

If an positive integer is given as n, SecureRandom.random_number returns an integer: 0 <= SecureRandom.random_number(n) < n.

If 0 is given or an argument is not given, SecureRandom.random_number returns an float: 0.0 <= SecureRandom.random_number() < 1.0.



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# File 'lib/securerandom.rb', line 117

def self.random_number(n=0)
  if 0 < n
    hex = n.to_s(16)
    hex = '0' + hex if (hex.length & 1) == 1
    bin = [hex].pack("H*")
    mask = bin[0]
    mask |= mask >> 1
    mask |= mask >> 2
    mask |= mask >> 4
    begin
      rnd = SecureRandom.random_bytes(bin.length)
      rnd[0] = (rnd[0] & mask).chr
    end until rnd < bin
    rnd.unpack("H*")[0].hex
  else
    # assumption: Float::MANT_DIG <= 64
    i64 = SecureRandom.random_bytes(8).unpack("Q")[0]
    Math.ldexp(i64 >> (64-Float::MANT_DIG), -Float::MANT_DIG)
  end
end