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Id: 113975
Status: rejected
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Queue: Bytes-Random-Secure
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Requestors: puma [...] luotisade.net
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  Mon Apr 25 12:10:33 2016 puma [...] luotisade.net - Ticket created
Subject: random_string_from() cant get it to work
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 19:10:13 +0300
To: bug-bytes-random-secure [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Ville Ahtola <puma [...] luotisade.net>
So I did some tests and was able to reliably reproduce two kinds of errors with the random_string_from() using two small scripts. Show quoted text
--- START PERL SCRIPT --- use Bytes::Random::Secure; my $random = Bytes::Random::Secure->new( NonBlocking => 1 ); my $passwd = $random->random_string_from( 'abcde', 3 ); --- END PERL SCRIPT --- This first example gives error message of "Byte count must be a positive integer." and a return code of 9.
--- START PERL SCRIPT --- use Bytes::Random::Secure; my $random = Bytes::Random::Secure->new( NonBlocking => 1 ); my $passwd = $random->random_string_from( 3, 'abcde' ); --- END PERL SCRIPT --- This tries to read from a blocking entropy pool, stalls, and hangs for so long that I couldn't be bothered to find out what it eventually outputs. I'd be curious if you can reproduce this behaviour, or is the problem with my system or the debian package.
  Mon Apr 25 12:31:04 2016 daoswald [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #113975] random_string_from() cant get it to work
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:30:38 -0600
To: bug-Bytes-Random-Secure [...] rt.cpan.org
From: David Oswald <daoswald [...] gmail.com>
Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into it within the next day or so. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Ville Ahtola via RT < bug-Bytes-Random-Secure@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text
> Mon Apr 25 12:10:33 2016: Request 113975 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by puma@luotisade.net > Queue: Bytes-Random-Secure > Subject: random_string_from() cant get it to work > Broken in: (no value) > Severity: (no value) > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: puma@luotisade.net > Status: new > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=113975 > > > > So I did some tests and was able to reliably reproduce two kinds of errors > with the random_string_from() using two small scripts. > > > --- START PERL SCRIPT --- > use Bytes::Random::Secure; > my $random = Bytes::Random::Secure->new( NonBlocking => 1 ); > my $passwd = $random->random_string_from( 'abcde', 3 ); > --- END PERL SCRIPT --- > > This first example gives error message of "Byte count must be a positive > integer." and a return code of 9. > > > > --- START PERL SCRIPT --- > use Bytes::Random::Secure; > my $random = Bytes::Random::Secure->new( NonBlocking => 1 ); > my $passwd = $random->random_string_from( 3, 'abcde' ); > --- END PERL SCRIPT --- > > This tries to read from a blocking entropy pool, stalls, and hangs for so > long that I couldn't be bothered to find out what it eventually outputs. > > > I'd be curious if you can reproduce this behaviour, or is the problem with > my system or the debian package. > >
-- David Oswald daoswald@gmail.com
  Mon Apr 25 12:31:05 2016 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Apr 25 17:31:33 2016 davido [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Apr 25 09:10:33 2016, puma@luotisade.net wrote: Show quoted text
> So I did some tests and was able to reliably reproduce two kinds of errors > with the random_string_from() using two small scripts. > > > --- START PERL SCRIPT --- > use Bytes::Random::Secure; > my $random = Bytes::Random::Secure->new( NonBlocking => 1 ); > my $passwd = $random->random_string_from( 'abcde', 3 ); > --- END PERL SCRIPT --- > > This first example gives error message of "Byte count must be a positive > integer." and a return code of 9.
In this example, since you are using the Object Oriented interface to Bytes::Random::Secure, you should be using the string_from method (not the random_string_from function). Here is an example: perl -MBytes::Random::Secure -e 'my $r = Bytes::Random::Secure->new(NonBlocking => 1); my $p = $r->string_from(q{abcde}, 3); print "$p\n";' Show quoted text
> --- START PERL SCRIPT --- > use Bytes::Random::Secure; > my $random = Bytes::Random::Secure->new( NonBlocking => 1 ); > my $passwd = $random->random_string_from( 3, 'abcde' ); > --- END PERL SCRIPT --- > > This tries to read from a blocking entropy pool, stalls, and hangs for so > long that I couldn't be bothered to find out what it eventually outputs. > > > I'd be curious if you can reproduce this behaviour, or is the problem with > my system or the debian package.
I haven't witnessed blocking when a non-blocking entropy source is requested. However, that last line should be: my $passwd = $random->string_from('abcde', 3);
  Mon Apr 25 20:11:29 2016 puma [...] luotisade.net - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #113975] random_string_from() cant get it to work
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 03:11:11 +0300
To: "David J. Oswald via RT" <bug-Bytes-Random-Secure [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: Ville Ahtola <puma [...] luotisade.net>
Yes. You are right. I got the random_string_from() and string_from() all mixed up. So no bugs here afterall. Sorry for the false alarm.
  Mon Aug 13 16:53:56 2018 davido [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Rejecting because it was just operator error.
  Mon Aug 13 16:53:57 2018 davido [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'