# uid-safe

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URL and cookie safe UIDs

Create cryptographically secure UIDs safe for both cookie and URL usage.
This is in contrast to modules such as [rand-token](https://www.npmjs.com/package/rand-token)
and [uid2](https://www.npmjs.com/package/uid2) whose UIDs are actually skewed
due to the use of `%` and unnecessarily truncate the UID.
Use this if you could still use UIDs with `-` and `_` in them.

## Installation

```sh
$ npm install uid-safe
```

## API

```js
var uid = require('uid-safe')
```

### uid(byteLength, callback)

Asynchronously create a UID with a specific byte length. Because `base64`
encoding is used underneath, this is not the string length. For example,
to create a UID of length 24, you want a byte length of 18.

```js
uid(18, function (err, string) {
  if (err) throw err
  // do something with the string
})
```

### uid(byteLength)

Asynchronously create a UID with a specific byte length and return a
`Promise`.

**Note**: To use promises in Node.js _prior to 0.12_, promises must be
"polyfilled" using `global.Promise = require('bluebird')`.

```js
uid(18).then(function (string) {
  // do something with the string
})
```

### uid.sync(byteLength)

A synchronous version of above.

```js
var string = uid.sync(18)
```

## License

[MIT](LICENSE)

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