File Coverage

blib/lib/FAQ/OMatic/Entropy.pm

Criterion	Covered	Total	%
statement	6	18	33.3
branch	0	2	0.0
condition			n/a
subroutine	2	3	66.6
pod	0	1	0.0
total	8	24	33.3

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use strict;

###
### Entropy looks around for some entropy for better password/nonce
### generation. Uses /dev/random if you've got it.
###

package FAQ::OMatic::Entropy;

use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);

# generate a temporary password
# THANKS to Matej Vela  for pointing out that my crappy
# first cut ( crypt(rand(time)) ) was very easily attackable with an offline
# attack: so if your fom file becomes world-readable and your config
# goes away, an attacker could easily compute the attack offline, then
# log in and control the config page: that's a lot of power. He can
# specify executables to run there. Yikes!
# Just for kicks, a google search for "temporaryCryptedPassword" found
# four publically-readable passwords. They weren't vulnerable because the
# sites config files are set up correctly ... for now! Scary.
#
# So, to be a little safer, let's use a less-attackable hash (which will
# require admins to install Digest::MD5), and collect entropy wherever
# we can find it.
# (Perhaps we could fancy-up crypt to give more like 112 bits of hash
# quality by tweaking it to essentially do 3DES, but I doubt it, and I
# don't want my crypto sloppiness to expose your machine to attack.)
#
sub gatherRandomString {
	my $entropy = '';
	$entropy .= $$;
	$entropy .= time();
	# if you've got real random bits, let's take 128 of them.
	# Too bad there's not a standard way to fetch real entropy on all platforms
	if (-r "/dev/random") {
		my $buf;
		open (RANDFH, "/dev/random");
		sysread(RANDFH, $buf, 16);
		close (RANDFH);
		$entropy .= $buf;
	}
	# grab some more sources for those poor slobs who don't have /dev/random
	$entropy .= `uptime`;
	$entropy .= `uname -a`;

	# hash it all up into a secret password
	return md5_hex($entropy);
}

1;