I maintain a library called PGPCore for using PGP encryption in C#, in order to test how this performs when processing large files I needed to create a large file full of random data to check it was encrypting/decrypting as expected. After a bit of searching the answers to this Read more…
If you want to get a random string in SQL then you could use newid to generate a GUID and take the alphanumeric characters from it, however while these should obviously be unique from each other they don’t contain the full range of characters that may be desired and sequential Read more…
I’ve been trying to generate unique referal codes composed of uppercase letters for a project and although it’s not really necessary I wanted to make these as cryptographically sound as possible so I could reuse the code later in a personal password generator project. Turns out it wasn’t as simple Read more…