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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* vim: set et sw=2 ts=2: */
+/***************************************************************************
+ * salt.cc
+ *
+ * Sun Jul 5 14:34:25 CEST 2020
+ * Copyright 2020 Bent Bisballe Nyeng
+ * deva@aasimon.org
+ ****************************************************************************/
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of Munia.
+ *
+ * Munia is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * Munia is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with Munia; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
+ */
+#include "salt.h"
+
+#define _GNU_SOURCE 1
+#include <linux/random.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+//#include <errno.h>
+
+Salt getSalt()
+{
+ Salt salt(16, '\0');
+
+ auto ret = syscall(SYS_getrandom, salt.data(), salt.size(), 1);
+ if(ret == -1)
+ {
+ throw "Could not get random bytes for salt"; // strerror(errno));
+ }
+
+ if(ret != (int)salt.size())
+ {
+ throw "Not enough entropy.";
+ }
+
+ return salt;
+}