extensions/guacamole-auth-sso/modules/guacamole-auth-sso-saml/src/main/java/org/apache/guacamole/auth/saml/acs/IdentifierGenerator.java

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package org.apache.guacamole.auth.saml.acs;

import com.google.common.io.BaseEncoding;
import com.google.inject.Singleton;
import java.security.SecureRandom;

/**
 * Generator of unique and unpredictable identifiers. Each generated identifier
 * is an arbitrary, random string produced using a cryptographically-secure
 * random number generator and consists of at least 256 bits.
 */
@Singleton
public class IdentifierGenerator {

    /**
     * Cryptographically-secure random number generator for generating unique
     * identifiers.
     */
    private final SecureRandom secureRandom = new SecureRandom();

    /**
     * Generates a unique and unpredictable identifier. Each identifier is at
     * least 256-bit and produced using a cryptographically-secure random
     * number generator.
     *
     * @return
     *     A unique and unpredictable identifier.
     */
    public String generateIdentifier() {
        byte[] bytes = new byte[33];
        secureRandom.nextBytes(bytes);
        return BaseEncoding.base64().encode(bytes);
    }

}