# Generating User Api Keys with REST API

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**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [May 1, 2017, 10:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generating-user-api-keys-with-rest-api/61916 "2017-05-01T22:55:27Z")\
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So, looking at the source code, client-id is 32 random bytes and nonce is 16 random bytes.  
Edit: It’s actually 32 & 16 nybbles, but the code generating it is called randomBytes(32)

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