didip/tornado_cookie_secret_generator.py

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Generates secure cookie secret for Tornado Web Framework

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tornado_cookie_secret_generator.py

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	import base64
	import uuid

	print base64.b64encode(uuid.uuid4().bytes + uuid.uuid4().bytes)

z0u commented Jun 5, 2015

Thanks for this. I've made a fork that should be better for signing things. UUIDs aren't very useful for cryptography, because they are too predictable.

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