openethereum/ethstore/src/random.rs

// Copyright 2015-2017 Parity Technologies (UK) Ltd.
// This file is part of Parity.

// Parity is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
// GNU General Public License for more details.

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use rand::{Rng, OsRng};

pub trait Random {
	fn random() -> Self where Self: Sized;
}

impl Random for [u8; 16] {
	fn random() -> Self {
		let mut result = [0u8; 16];
		let mut rng = OsRng::new().unwrap();
		rng.fill_bytes(&mut result);
		result
	}
}

impl Random for [u8; 32] {
	fn random() -> Self {
		let mut result = [0u8; 32];
		let mut rng = OsRng::new().unwrap();
		rng.fill_bytes(&mut result);
		result
	}
}

/// Generate a random string of given length.
pub fn random_string(length: usize) -> String {
	let mut rng = OsRng::new().expect("Not able to operate without random source.");
	rng.gen_ascii_chars().take(length).collect()
}