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diff --git a/Lib/secrets.py b/Lib/secrets.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..27fa450 --- /dev/null +++ b/Lib/secrets.py @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +"""Generate cryptographically strong pseudo-random numbers suitable for +managing secrets such as account authentication, tokens, and similar. + +See PEP 506 for more information. +https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0506/ + +""" + +__all__ = ['choice', 'randbelow', 'randbits', 'SystemRandom', + 'token_bytes', 'token_hex', 'token_urlsafe', + 'compare_digest', + ] + + +import base64 +import binascii +import os + +from hmac import compare_digest +from random import SystemRandom + +_sysrand = SystemRandom() + +randbits = _sysrand.getrandbits +choice = _sysrand.choice + +def randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound): + """Return a random int in the range [0, n).""" + return _sysrand._randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound) + +DEFAULT_ENTROPY = 32 # number of bytes to return by default + +def token_bytes(nbytes=None): + """Return a random byte string containing *nbytes* bytes. + + If *nbytes* is ``None`` or not supplied, a reasonable + default is used. + + >>> token_bytes(16) #doctest:+SKIP + b'\\xebr\\x17D*t\\xae\\xd4\\xe3S\\xb6\\xe2\\xebP1\\x8b' + + """ + if nbytes is None: + nbytes = DEFAULT_ENTROPY + return os.urandom(nbytes) + +def token_hex(nbytes=None): + """Return a random text string, in hexadecimal. + + The string has *nbytes* random bytes, each byte converted to two + hex digits. If *nbytes* is ``None`` or not supplied, a reasonable + default is used. + + >>> token_hex(16) #doctest:+SKIP + 'f9bf78b9a18ce6d46a0cd2b0b86df9da' + + """ + return binascii.hexlify(token_bytes(nbytes)).decode('ascii') + +def token_urlsafe(nbytes=None): + """Return a random URL-safe text string, in Base64 encoding. + + The string has *nbytes* random bytes. If *nbytes* is ``None`` + or not supplied, a reasonable default is used. + + >>> token_urlsafe(16) #doctest:+SKIP + 'Drmhze6EPcv0fN_81Bj-nA' + + """ + tok = token_bytes(nbytes) + return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(tok).rstrip(b'=').decode('ascii') |