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package UUID4::Tiny;
# ABSTRACT: Cryptographically secure v4 UUIDs for Linux x64
use 5.008;
use strict;
our $VERSION = '0.003';
use Carp qw/carp croak/;
our @ISA = qw/Exporter/;
our @EXPORT_OK = qw/
create_uuid
create_uuid_string
is_uuid_string
is_uuid4_string
string_to_uuid
uuid_to_string
/;
our %EXPORT_TAGS = (all => \@EXPORT_OK);
use constant {
GRND_NONBLOCK => 0x0001,
RANDOM_BYTES => 16,
};
sub create_uuid {
my $call = syscall( 318, my $uuid = "\0" x RANDOM_BYTES,
RANDOM_BYTES, GRND_NONBLOCK );
croak "Syscall Error: $!" if $call == -1;
croak 'Insufficient Bytes Copied' if $call < RANDOM_BYTES;
vec( $uuid, 13, 4 ) = 0x4; # version
vec( $uuid, 35, 2 ) = 0x2; # variant
return $uuid;
}
sub create_uuid_string { uuid_to_string( create_uuid() ) }
sub is_uuid_string {
$_[0] =~ /^[0-9a-f]{8}(?:-[0-9a-f]{4}){3}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/i;
}
sub is_uuid4_string {
$_[0] =~ /^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-4[0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/i;
}
sub string_to_uuid {
my $string = shift;
if ( length $string == 16 ) {
# Emulates UUID::Tiny behavior to
# prevent accidental double conversion
carp 'Input not converted: assumed to be UUID bytes';
return $string;
}
(my $hex = $string) =~ y/-//d;
pack 'H*', $hex;
}
sub uuid_to_string {
my $uuid = shift;
if ( my $reftype = ref $uuid ) {
croak "Invalid UUID: expected scalar but got reference to $reftype";
}
if ( is_uuid_string $uuid ) {
# Emulates UUID::Tiny behavior to
# prevent accidental double conversion
carp 'Input not converted: identified as UUID string';
return $uuid;
}
join '-', unpack 'H8H4H4H4H12', $uuid;
}
1;
__END__
=pod
=encoding UTF-8
=head1 NAME
UUID4::Tiny - Cryptographically secure v4 UUIDs for Linux x64
=head1 VERSION
version 0.003
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use UUID4::Tiny qw/
create_uuid
create_uuid_string
is_uuid_string
is_uuid4_string
string_to_uuid
uuid_to_string
/;
my $uuid = create_uuid;
my $uuid_string = create_uuid_string;
$uuid = string_to_uuid $uuid_string;
$uuid_string = uuid_to_string $uuid;
if ( is_uuid4_string $uuid_string ) { ... }
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Uses the Linux getrandom() system call to generate a version 4 UUID.
Requires Linux kernel 3.17 or newer for getrandom().
=head1 FUNCTIONS
=head2 create_uuid
my $uuid = create_uuid;
Gets a series of 16 random bytes via the getrandom() system call
and sets the UUID4 version and variant on those bytes. Dies with
a message containing the errno if the call to getrandom() fails.
=head2 uuid_to_string
my $uuid_string = uuid_to_string( create_uuid );
Converts a 16 byte UUID to a canonical 8-4-4-4-12 format UUID string.
Calling this function on a string that is already a UUID string will return the
string unmodified, and raise a warning.
Calling this function on a reference is almost certainly not what you want, as
the function would naively try to unpack the stringified reference, e.g.
C<ARRAY(0xdeadbeef1234)>, into a UUID string. For this reason, the function
will croak if its input is a reference.
=head2 create_uuid_string
my $uuid_string = create_uuid_string;
Shortcut for uuid_to_string called on create_uuid.
=head2 string_to_uuid
my $uuid = string_to_uuid( $uuid_string );
Converts a canonical 8-4-4-4-12 format UUID string to a 16 byte UUID.
=head2 is_uuid_string
if ( is_uuid_string( $input ) ) { ... }
Checks if the input matches the canonical 8-4-4-4-12 format.
=head2 is_uuid4_string
if ( is_uuid4_string( $input ) ) { ... }
Similar to is_uuid_string, additionaly checking that the
variant and version are correct for UUID v4.
=head1 SEE ALSO
=over 4
=item *
L<UUID::URandom> - A portable UUID v4 generator using L<Crypt::URandom>.
=item *
L<UUID::Tiny> - Creates version 1, 3, 4 and 5 UUIDs (not cryptographically strong due to rand() usage).
=back
=head1 AUTHOR
CV-Library <cvlibrary@cpan.org>
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2019 by CV-Library.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
=cut