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lacerus on Jan 9, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Password Hijacking Security Incident and Response

to_hex does not seem to be in the standard library, but these will work and are rather elegant to get a short random string. Thanks, Patrick!

  rand(16**16).to_s(16)
  rand(16**16).to_s(36)

earless1 on Jan 10, 2013 [–]

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/securerandom/rdo...

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