generate cryptographically safe nonce value

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 04:24:27PM +0300, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:

> Hi Muthu,
> 
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 04:20:58AM -0400, muthualagappanchess wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a way to generate cryptographically safe nonce value (random
> > number) with standard ngnix installation without adding any other module
> > dynamically?
> 
> NGINX generates a unique request identifier, please visit the following
> link for details,
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#var_request_id

Note that it might not be cryptographically safe.

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