server/util/StringUtil.cs

@@ -165,6 +165,30 @@ namespace Sockeye.Util
             return Encoding.ASCII.GetString(bytes); // returns: "Hello world" for "48656C6C6F20776F726C64"
         }
 
+
+        //Generate a random code for email validation and v7 license key fetching
+        //doesn't have to be perfect, it's only temporary and 
+        //requires knowledge of the customer / trial user
+        //email address to use it so it's kind of 2 factor
+        public static string GenFetchCode()
+        {
+
+            //sufficient for this purpose
+            //https://stackoverflow.com/a/1344258/8939
+
+            var chars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
+            var stringChars = new char[10];
+            var random = new Random();
+
+            for (int i = 0; i < stringChars.Length; i++)
+            {
+                stringChars[i] = chars[random.Next(chars.Length)];
+            }
+
+            var finalString = new String(stringChars);
+            return finalString;
+        }
+
     }//eoc
 
 }//eons