Keysmith

Create keys, uuid's, timestamps, and more with Rust.

Here's some example keys:

5WdT@KfYRyRDqh0AAVUsyitSXbm4OQwzClX9.XYn5kLmKeObCf8YE3HqzHdU3UTS
g1Y_Zp9-9rDf7VAaR1KGnH9Uf5klGjSQ6P2rAjK35iK-GnZ@dVXYu.aElzTfTOaK
M3rkxIbrD0lz-SpUBe704X2)Gd(_WprzRJW7N51O@_58180Gs9esIVBO5.OdFOlY

This looks like gibberish, but that's the point. Two id's in a database should not overlap. So if you need a lot of entries, you need to reduce the odds of that happening. If the odds of two identical id's are astronomically low, you shouldn't even need to check for an existing id in the first place. Keysmith does that generation for you and outputs it as a String.

You can also generate version 4 UUID's.

be3b5529-931b-6b75-1678-a057bccf71c9
440146ab-a19a-8a36-2d4b-ba19a79570d4
0090da40-6ce2-59d3-629d-11b293c9e2d3

Keysmith also supports many other data formats.

• Keys strings from custom character sets
• "Nonstandard" V4 UUID's using any letter as opposed to just a-f
• Timestamps (ex: 50546851)
• Dates (ex: 2023-07-17), times (ex: 19:34:07), and datetimes (ex: 2023-07-17T19:34:07)
• Individual characters

Usage

For usage, see the documentation.

For installation, see crates.io.

Changelog

You can find the changelog in CHANGELOG.md.

Building

1. Install rustup if you haven't already.
2. Clone this repo. Usually with git clone https://github.com/njshockey/keysmith-rs.git.
3. Run cargo build or cargo build --release to build.
   • To run the test package, run cargo run -p usage instead.

License

Keysmith uses the Rust standard MIT/Apache-2.0 dual license for best compatibility. See LICENSE-APACHE.txt and LICENSE-MIT.txt for the full licenses.