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Devkant Swargiary
Devkant Swargiary

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'secrets' module in Python.

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The secrets module is useful for generating random numbers which might be used as a password, security tokens etc. for the application. It is used to prevent against modifying cookies, forgery attacks.

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*Open the terminal and enter the command "python" *

python
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Import the secrets module

import secrets
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To generate a random string of characters

secrets.token_hex(16)
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** The generated 16 digit string **

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The above generated secret key could be used in a web application as shown below :

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