Genearting salts for WordPress with go

To deploy

1. clone repo
2. install packages with go mod tidy && go mod vendor
3. run it with go run salt.go or compile with go build salt.go and run with ./salt

Once it's running

/ gets you standard snippet that you can drop into your wp-config.php file

/env gets you format that you can drop into your .env file

/json gets you the salts with key-value in JSON format

Benchmark

We're only using the optimised fastest / safest versions of the function calls.

go test -benchmem -bench=.

As of 24th March 2018

❯ go test -benchmem -bench=.
goos: darwin
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/javorszky/go-generate-salts
cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9980HK CPU @ 2.40GHz
BenchmarkRandStringBytesMaskImpr8x64-16    	  382617	      3176 ns/op	    1024 B/op	      16 allocs/op
BenchmarkRandStringBytesMaskImpr512-16     	  371102	      3018 ns/op	    1024 B/op	       2 allocs/op
BenchmarkGenerateSaltsWP512-16             	  178719	      6263 ns/op	    3698 B/op	      49 allocs/op
BenchmarkGenerateSaltsEnv512-16            	  212131	      5166 ns/op	    3138 B/op	      31 allocs/op
BenchmarkGenerateSaltsJSON512-16           	  304455	      3851 ns/op	    2065 B/op	       5 allocs/op
BenchmarkSrcInt63Parallel-16               	  149832	      7800 ns/op	    1024 B/op	       2 allocs/op
PASS
ok  	github.com/javorszky/go-generate-salts	8.360s

Thank you!

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/31832326/2862802 for the fantastic thread / explanations
• @djavorszky for rubber ducking and pushing me to do the benchmarks