staletea/utils/secret.go
2019-06-04 10:42:42 +02:00

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// staletea
// Copyright (C) 2019 Jonas Franz
//
// This program 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 3 of the License, or
// (at your option) any later version.
//
// This program 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 this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
package utils
import (
"crypto/rand"
"encoding/base64"
)
// NewSecret will generate a random string of the given length
func NewSecret(length int) (string, error) {
secret := make([]byte, length)
if _, err := rand.Read(secret); err != nil {
return "", err
}
return base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(secret), nil
}