/* * rand.go - Reader used to generate secure random data for fscrypt. * * Copyright 2017 Google Inc. * Author: Joe Richey (joerichey@google.com) * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of * the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under * the License. */ package crypto import ( "io" "github.com/pkg/errors" "golang.org/x/sys/unix" ) // NewRandomBuffer uses the Linux Getrandom() syscall to create random bytes. If // the operating system has insufficient randomness, the buffer creation will // fail. This is an improvement over Go's built-in crypto/rand which will still // return bytes if the system has insufficiency entropy. // See: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19274 // // While this syscall was only introduced in Kernel v3.17, it predates the // introduction of filesystem encryption, so it introduces no additional // compatibility issues. func NewRandomBuffer(length int) ([]byte, error) { buffer := make([]byte, length) if _, err := io.ReadFull(randReader{}, buffer); err != nil { return nil, err } return buffer, nil } // NewRandomKey creates a random key of the specified length. This function uses // the same random number generation process as NewRandomBuffer. func NewRandomKey(length int) (*Key, error) { return NewFixedLengthKeyFromReader(randReader{}, length) } // randReader just calls into Getrandom, so no internal data is needed. type randReader struct{} func (r randReader) Read(buffer []byte) (int, error) { n, err := unix.Getrandom(buffer, unix.GRND_NONBLOCK) switch err { case nil: return n, nil case unix.EAGAIN: return 0, errors.Wrap(ErrGetrandomFail, "insufficient entropy in pool") case unix.ENOSYS: return 0, errors.Wrap(ErrGetrandomFail, "kernel must be v3.17 or later") default: return 0, errors.Wrap(ErrGetrandomFail, err.Error()) } }