Re: [Zope] Unique IDs

10 Jun 2001


      "Daniel Fairs" <daniel.fairs@spiderplant.net> writes:
...
What's the best way to generate a secure unique ID in Zope? I've tried
generating a random integer then md5'ing it, but trying to do an md5.new()
I am using an external Python method for that:

# Token.py
# generate a token for user accounts
# the token is built from a secret key and the users
# first and last name and his email address
# 2001-04-14  Frank Tegtmeyer

import sha, binascii

def GetToken(initstring):
        s=sha.new()
        s.update("put your secret string here")
        s.update(initstring)
        return binascii.b2a_base64(s.digest())[:16]

if __name__=='__main__':
        print GetToken('abcdefg')


Regards, Frank