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| -rw-r--r-- | nova/utils.py | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/nova/utils.py b/nova/utils.py index 9c8b27d56..0510c3cbe 100644 --- a/nova/utils.py +++ b/nova/utils.py @@ -267,9 +267,10 @@ def generate_password(length=20): Believed to be reasonably secure (with a reasonable password length!) """ - # 26 letters, 10 digits = 36 - # Remove O, 0, I, 1 => 32 digits - # 32 digits means we're just using the low 5 bit of each byte + # 26 letters, 10 digits = 36 choices + # Remove O, 0, I, 1 => 32 choices + # 32 choices means we're just using the low 5 bit of each byte, + # so there's no bias introduced by using a modulo chrs = "ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZ23456789" random_bytes = os.urandom(length) |