Create Random String and strong Passwords in Python in 4 lines of code
Milind Soorya / September 14, 2021
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Introduction
The secrets module is used for generating cryptographically strong random numbers suitable for managing data such as passwords, account authentication, security tokens, and related secrets.
In particular, secrets should be used in preference to the default pseudo-random number generator in the random module, which is designed for modelling and simulation, not security or cryptography.
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In this short article I will show how to generate random string which can be used as secure password in python 3 with source code.
Using secrets.token_hex
This is the easiest method to generate a random text of string, in hexadecimal.
>>> token_hex(16)
'f9bf78b9a18ce6d46a0cd2b0b86df9da'
In a single line, you get a good enough password. But, yeah there is a but, if you want real hardcore, unbreakable password this is how to do it.
Using secrets.choice
secrets.choice return a randomly-chosen element from a non-empty sequence. we just have to provide enough variation as the input string.
import string
from secrets import choice
characters = string.ascii_letters + string.punctuation + string.digits
print(characters)
# abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~0123456789
password = "".join(choice(characters) for x in range(0, 32))
print(password)
# ONFe[)P>5^(jnJ\7ZgYw,|671BZ&!8R"
Conclusion
There you go a strong 32 character password 🎉🎉
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