uniuri/uniuri.go
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// Written in 2011-2014 by Dmitry Chestnykh
//
// The author(s) have dedicated all copyright and related and
// neighboring rights to this software to the public domain
// worldwide. Distributed without any warranty.
// http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
// Package uniuri generates random strings good for use in URIs to identify
// unique objects.
//
// Example usage:
//
// s := uniuri.New() // s is now "apHCJBl7L1OmC57n"
//
// A standard string created by New() is 16 bytes in length and consists of
// Latin upper and lowercase letters, and numbers (from the set of 62 allowed
// characters), which means that it has ~95 bits of entropy. To get more
// entropy, you can use NewLen(UUIDLen), which returns 20-byte string, giving
// ~119 bits of entropy, or any other desired length.
//
// Functions read from crypto/rand random source, and panic if they fail to
// read from it.
package uniuri
import "crypto/rand"
const (
// StdLen is a standard length of uniuri string to achive ~95 bits of entropy.
StdLen = 16
// UUIDLen is a length of uniuri string to achive ~119 bits of entropy, closest
// to what can be losslessly converted to UUIDv4 (122 bits).
UUIDLen = 20
)
// StdChars is a set of standard characters allowed in uniuri string.
var StdChars = []byte("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789")
// New returns a new random string of the standard length, consisting of
// standard characters.
func New() string {
return NewLenChars(StdLen, StdChars)
}
// NewLen returns a new random string of the provided length, consisting of
// standard characters.
func NewLen(length int) string {
return NewLenChars(length, StdChars)
}
// NewLenChars returns a new random string of the provided length, consisting
// of the provided byte slice of allowed characters (maximum 256).
func NewLenChars(length int, chars []byte) string {
if length == 0 {
return ""
}
clen := len(chars)
if clen < 2 || clen > 256 {
panic("uniuri: wrong charset length for NewLenChars")
}
maxrb := 255 - (256 % clen)
b := make([]byte, length)
r := make([]byte, length+(length/4)) // storage for random bytes.
i := 0
for {
if _, err := rand.Read(r); err != nil {
panic("error reading from random source: " + err.Error())
}
for _, rb := range r {
c := int(rb)
if c > maxrb {
// Skip this number to avoid modulo bias.
continue
}
b[i] = chars[c%clen]
i++
if i == length {
return string(b)
}
}
}
}