How to generate random bytes in Node.JS
Easy! I discovered this recently and it is interesting to me. Here is a quick example:
const crypto = require('crypto');
console.log(crypto.randomBytes(1).toString("hex"));
console.log(crypto.randomBytes(2).toString("hex"));
console.log(crypto.randomBytes(4).toString("hex"));
console.log(crypto.randomBytes(8).toString("hex"));
console.log(crypto.randomBytes(16).toString("hex"));
console.log(crypto.randomBytes(32).toString("hex"));
console.log(crypto.randomBytes(64).toString("hex"));
When you run this code you might see something similar to this:
E:\NodeJS>node randomCrypto.js
d8
dccd
0709fee2
67d6d7c51cc59f0d
af19069e601e47a9141d27d7d828a9d0
f83b7547452099462061734791da57443cc60828de7dcb8f7494eedceb3c889c
e2e4a1faaf4190898aaf4fa786e20fe076237854ae4628127cb2eda4bafd3000b42788e347ade94d0c98614a40586b71ded3044879f791adedd6c0d4bb22e9ac
The argument passed to the function is the length in bytes, when you convert it to hex, you should have a string with a length of 2 times the number of bytes indicated.
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