另一个版本，灵感来自于生成密码在JavaScript加密:

package main

import (
    "crypto/rand"
    "fmt"
)

var chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890-"

func shortID(length int) string {
    ll := len(chars)
    b := make([]byte, length)
    rand.Read(b) // generates len(b) random bytes
    for i := 0; i < length; i++ {
        b[i] = chars[int(b[i])%ll]
    }
    return string(b)
}

func main() {
    fmt.Println(shortID(18))
    fmt.Println(shortID(18))
    fmt.Println(shortID(18))
}

func Rand(n int) (str string) {
    b := make([]byte, n)
    rand.Read(b)
    str = fmt.Sprintf("%x", b)
    return
}

package main

import (
    "encoding/base64"
    "fmt"
    "math/rand"
    "time"
)

// customEncodeURL is like `bas64.encodeURL` 
// except its made up entirely of uppercase characters:
const customEncodeURL = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKL"

// Random generates a random string.
// It is not cryptographically secure.
func Random(n int) string {
    b := make([]byte, n)
    rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
    _, _ = rand.Read(b) // docs say that it always returns a nil error.

    customEncoding := base64.NewEncoding(customEncodeURL).WithPadding(base64.NoPadding)
    return customEncoding.EncodeToString(b)
}

func main() {
    fmt.Println(Random(16))
}

这里是一个简单而高效的加密安全随机字符串的解决方案。

package main

import (
    "crypto/rand"
    "unsafe"
    "fmt"
)

var alphabet = []byte("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")

func main() {
    fmt.Println(generate(16))
}

func generate(size int) string {
    b := make([]byte, size)
    rand.Read(b)
    for i := 0; i < size; i++ {
        b[i] = alphabet[b[i] % byte(len(alphabet))]
    }
    return *(*string)(unsafe.Pointer(&b))
}

基准

Benchmark  95.2 ns/op      16 B/op      1 allocs/op

两个可能的选项(当然可能有更多):

您可以使用crypto/rand包，它支持读取随机字节数组(来自/dev/urandom)，并面向加密随机生成。见http://golang.org/pkg/crypto/rand/#example_Read。它可能比普通的伪随机数生成慢。 取一个随机数，用md5或类似的方法进行哈希。

你可以为它编写代码。如果您希望使用UTF-8编码时所有字母都是单个字节，则此代码可以稍微简单一些。

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "time"
    "math/rand"
)

var letters = []rune("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")

func randSeq(n int) string {
    b := make([]rune, n)
    for i := range b {
        b[i] = letters[rand.Intn(len(letters))]
    }
    return string(b)
}

func main() {
    rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())

    fmt.Println(randSeq(10))
}