13 Dec
2022
13 Dec
'22
7:37 a.m.
Issue #19230 has been reported by mame (Yusuke Endoh).
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Bug #19230: The openssl backend of securerandom is no longer needed
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19230
* Author: mame (Yusuke Endoh)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
* ruby -v: ruby 3.1.3p185 (2022-11-24 revision 1a6b16756e) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.7: UNKNOWN, 3.0: UNKNOWN, 3.1: UNKNOWN
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securerandom first checks if Random.urandom is available ([Line
77](https://github.com/ruby/securerandom/blob/5bfe7d6c163f7a8a45af8d2fc377f…),
and if not available, it uses the openssl backend as a degeneration.
However, the openssl backend does not work because it internally uses Random.urandom
([Line
55](https://github.com/ruby/securerandom/blob/5bfe7d6c163f7a8a45af8d2fc377f…)
to create a seed.
This issue is found by @hanachin.
```
$ ruby -ve 'def Random.urandom(*); raise; end; require "securerandom"; p
SecureRandom.bytes(10)'
ruby 3.1.3p185 (2022-11-24 revision 1a6b16756e) [x86_64-linux]
-e:1: warning: method redefined; discarding old urandom
-e:1:in `urandom': unhandled exception
from /home/mame/local/lib/ruby/3.1.0/securerandom.rb:75:in `singleton class'
from /home/mame/local/lib/ruby/3.1.0/securerandom.rb:42:in
`<module:SecureRandom>'
from /home/mame/local/lib/ruby/3.1.0/securerandom.rb:41:in `<top
(required)>'
from
<internal:/home/mame/local/lib/ruby/3.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in
`require'
from
<internal:/home/mame/local/lib/ruby/3.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb>:85:in
`require'
from -e:1:in `<main>'
```
There has been this bug since commit:abae70d6ed63054d7d01bd6cd80c1b5b98b93ba3, which made
the urandom backend as default and left the openssl backend just for degeneration. I think
no one need the openssl anymore because no one has reported this bug for such a long
time.
How about removing it?
```diff
diff --git a/lib/securerandom.rb b/lib/securerandom.rb
index 07ae048634..32b76a2137 100644
--- a/lib/securerandom.rb
+++ b/lib/securerandom.rb
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
#
# It supports the following secure random number generators:
#
-# * openssl
# * /dev/urandom
# * Win32
#
@@ -46,21 +45,6 @@ def bytes(n)
private
- def gen_random_openssl(n)
- @pid = 0 unless defined?(@pid)
- pid = $$
- unless @pid == pid
- now = Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_REALTIME, :nanosecond)
- OpenSSL::Random.random_add([now, @pid, pid].join(""), 0.0)
- seed = Random.urandom(16)
- if (seed)
- OpenSSL::Random.random_add(seed, 16)
- end
- @pid = pid
- end
- return OpenSSL::Random.random_bytes(n)
- end
-
def gen_random_urandom(n)
ret = Random.urandom(n)
unless ret
@@ -77,13 +61,7 @@ def gen_random_urandom(n)
Random.urandom(1)
alias gen_random gen_random_urandom
rescue RuntimeError
- begin
- require 'openssl'
- rescue NoMethodError
- raise NotImplementedError, "No random device"
- else
- alias gen_random gen_random_openssl
- end
+ raise NotImplementedError, "No random device"
end
public :gen_random
```
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