Randomly-generated alphanumeric strings contain significantly less entropy than expected. The RandomAlphaNumeric and CryptoRandomAlphaNumeric functions always return strings containing at least one digit from 0 to 9. This significantly reduces the amount of entropy in short strings generated by these functions.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Go
Published:
Updated: 2025-04-11T16:17:46.299Z
Reserved: 2022-07-29T19:56:49.058Z
Link: CVE-2021-4238

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:23:10.165Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2022-12-27T22:15:12.073
Modified: 2025-04-11T17:15:35.883
Link: CVE-2021-4238
