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David Baker
2023-10-09 16:35:27 +01:00
parent 6faceb07cd
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@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ function secureRandomString(entropyBytes: number): string {
const key = new Uint8Array(entropyBytes);
crypto.getRandomValues(key);
// encode to base64url as this value goes into URLs
// base64url is just base64 with thw two non-alphanum characters swapped out for
// ones that can be put in a URL without encoding. Browser JS has a native impl
// for base64 encoding but only a string (there isn't one that takes a UInt8Array
// yet) so just use the built-in one and convert, replace the chars and strip the
// padding from the end (otherwise we'd need to pull in another dependency).
return btoa(
key.reduce((acc, current) => acc + String.fromCharCode(current), "")
)