Secure random token in Node.js

Question

In this question Erik needs to generate a secure random token in Node.js. There\'s the method crypto.randomBytes that generates a random Buffer. However, the ba

Answer 1

Try crypto.randomBytes():

require('crypto').randomBytes(48, function(err, buffer) {
  var token = buffer.toString('hex');
});

The 'hex' encoding works in node v0.6.x or newer.