There are a lot of uses for hard-to-guess random text strings in the world of web applications. They’re good for session keys, nonces, and other such things to slow down cybercriminals. I had the occasion to figure out how to generate them in SQL Server. That DBMS includes a source of random numbers. Here’s what I came up. View the… Read more →
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