Delirium

Delirium is a CLI tool and Go library that produces random values. Supports cryptographically-secure random values.

Table of contents

1. Project directory structure
2. How to install the CLI
3. How to use the CLI
   1. Printing help and usage information
   2. Making random base64 strings
   3. Making random URL-safe base64 strings
   4. Making random hexadecimal strings
4. How to install the library
5. How to use the library
   1. securerand
      1. Making random bytes
      2. Making random base64 strings
      3. Making random URL-safe base64 strings
      4. Making random hexadecimal strings
   2. pseudorand
      1. Making random bytes
      2. Making random base64 strings
      3. Making random URL-safe base64 strings
      4. Making random hexadecimal strings
6. Building from source
   1. Required technologies
   2. Building on Unix-like systems
   3. Building on Windows
7. Contributing

Project directory structure

.
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
├── SECURITY.md
├── cmd
│   └── delirium
│       └── delirium.go
├── go.mod
├── internal
│   └── constants
│       └── consts.go
└── pkg
    ├── pseudorand
    │   └── pseudorand.go
    └── securerand
        └── securerand.go

How to install Delirium CLI tool

I currently do not provide any prebuilt binaries for this tool. In order to install the CLI, you will need to install Go first and then run this command after Go has been installed:

go install github.com/sionpixley/delirium/cmd/delirium@latest

Make sure the GOPATH bin directory is in your PATH environment variable or the delirium command won't be found.

How to use Delirium CLI

The delirium command does not require sudo/admin to use.

Printing help and usage information

delirium -h

Making random base64 strings

By default, the delirium command will produce non-cryptographically-secure base64 strings with 16 bytes. If these defaults are ok with you, then run:

delirium

To change the number of bytes to use in the algorithm, specify the number of bytes with the -B flag:

delirium -B 20

To change the algorithm to be cryptographically-secure, add the -secure flag:

delirium -B 20 -secure

Making random URL-safe base64 strings

To change the encoding to use base64's URL-safe encoding, specify the -encoding flag with the value base64url:

delirium -encoding=base64url

Regardless of the encoding used, you can still specify the number of bytes to use and whether to make the algorithm cryptographically-secure:

delirium -encoding=base64url -B 20 -secure

Making random hexadecimal strings

To change the encoding to use hexadecimal, specify the -encoding flag with the value hex:

delirium -encoding=hex

Regardless of the encoding used, you can still specify the number of bytes to use and whether to make the algorithm cryptographically-secure:

delirium -encoding=hex -B 20 -secure

Printing your current version of Delirium

delirium -v

How to install Delirium library

go get github.com/sionpixley/delirium

How to use Delirium library

Delirium is a Go module that comes with two packages: securerand and pseudorand. The securerand package is a wrapper around the Go standard library crypto/rand and produces cryptographically-secure random values. The pseudorand package is a wrapper around the Go standard library math/rand/v2 and produces random values that are not cryptographically-secure.

securerand

Make sure to include the import:

import "github.com/sionpixley/delirium/pkg/securerand"

Making random bytes

secureRandomBytes, err := securerand.Bytes(<insert-num-of-bytes>)

Making random base64 strings

secureRandomBase64, err := securerand.Base64String(<insert-num-of-bytes>, false)

Making random URL-safe base64 strings

secureRandomBase64, err := securerand.Base64String(<insert-num-of-bytes>, true)

Making random hexadecimal strings

secureRandomHex, err := securerand.HexString(<insert-num-of-bytes>)

pseudorand

Make sure to include the import:

import "github.com/sionpixley/delirium/pkg/pseudorand"

Making random bytes

randomBytes := pseudorand.Bytes(<insert-num-of-bytes>)

Making random base64 strings

randomBase64 := pseudorand.Base64String(<insert-num-of-bytes>, false)

Making random URL-safe base64 strings

randomBase64 := pseudorand.Base64String(<insert-num-of-bytes>, true)

Making random hexadecimal strings

randomHex := pseudorand.HexString(<insert-num-of-bytes>)

Building from source

Required technologies

• Go 1.23.5

Building on Unix-like systems

go build -o delirium ./cmd/delirium

Building on Windows

go build -o delirium.exe ./cmd/delirium

Contributing

All contributions are welcome! If you wish to contribute to the project, the best way would be forking this repo and making a pull request from your fork with all of your suggested changes.