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Simple salting to generate x-digit codes.
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get_code.py
import hashlib
salt = "This is a super secret salt. Nobody should ever be able to guess this.6rAtas7swe9ach6rAtas7swe9achXrAtas7swe9ach6rAtas7swe9ach6rAtas7swe9ach6rAtas7swe9ach"
def get_code(number, length):
"""Returns the first length bytes of the generated 'code'"""
return hashlib.sha512(str(number) + str(salt)).hexdigest()[:length]
for i in range(10):
print get_code(i, 7)
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