crypto/rand: replace this package with a TinyGo version

This package provides access to an operating system resource
(cryptographic numbers) and so needs to be replaced with a TinyGo
version that does this in a different way.

I've made the following choices while adding this feature:

  - I'm using the getentropy call whenever possible (most POSIX like
    systems), because it is easier to use and more reliable. Linux is
    the exception: it only added getentropy relatively recently.
  - I've left bare-metal implementations to a future patch. This because
    it's hard to reliably get cryptographically secure random numbers on
    embedded devices: most devices do not have a hardware PRNG for this
    purpose.
This commit is contained in:
Ayke van Laethem
2021-06-19 16:19:41 +02:00
committed by Ron Evans
parent d8ac7ccaae
commit d94f42f6e2
7 changed files with 298 additions and 15 deletions
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// +build darwin freebsd wasi
// This implementation of crypto/rand uses the getentropy system call (available
// on both MacOS and WASI) to generate random numbers.
package rand
import (
"errors"
"unsafe"
)
var errReadFailed = errors.New("rand: could not read random bytes")
func init() {
Reader = &reader{}
}
type reader struct {
}
func (r *reader) Read(b []byte) (n int, err error) {
if len(b) != 0 {
if len(b) > 256 {
b = b[:256]
}
result := libc_getentropy(unsafe.Pointer(&b[0]), len(b))
if result < 0 {
// Maybe we should return a syscall.Errno here?
return 0, errReadFailed
}
}
return len(b), nil
}
// int getentropy(void *buf, size_t buflen);
//export getentropy
func libc_getentropy(buf unsafe.Pointer, buflen int) int