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### Usage in Production Environments
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This is the use at your own risk warning. As this program uses the math/rand package and not the crypto/rand package, I would avoid production environments because of the possibility of being subject to a time attack. That being said, security is all about threat models, and most users who need a quick simple password aren't being actively targeted on their machines.
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This is the use at your own risk warning. As this program uses the math/rand package and not the crypto/rand package, I would avoid production environments because of the possibility of being subject to a [timing attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack). That being said, security is all about threat models, and most users who need a quick simple password aren't being actively targeted on their machines.
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Replacing the math/rand with crypto/rand isn't out of the picture, it's just not a priority at the moment.
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