diff --git a/web/utils/text-utils.js b/web/utils/text-utils.js
index a0c8647ce..801ee0e29 100644
--- a/web/utils/text-utils.js
+++ b/web/utils/text-utils.js
@@ -1,19 +1,61 @@
 // @flow
 
+import crypto from 'crypto';
+import invariant from 'invariant';
+
 let canvas;
 
 function calculateMaxTextWidth(
   texts: $ReadOnlyArray<string>,
   font: string,
 ): number {
   if (!canvas) {
     canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
   }
   const context = canvas.getContext('2d');
   context.font = font;
 
   const widths = texts.map(text => context.measureText(text).width);
   return Math.max(...widths);
 }
 
-export { calculateMaxTextWidth };
+const numberOfPossibleByteValues = 256;
+
+function generateRandomString(length: number, availableSigns: string): string {
+  invariant(length >= 0, 'length must be non-negative');
+  invariant(
+    availableSigns !== '' || length === 0,
+    "cannot create a random string of non-zero length from availableSigns = ''",
+  );
+  invariant(
+    numberOfPossibleByteValues >= availableSigns.length,
+    `The number of available signs must not exceed ${numberOfPossibleByteValues}`,
+  );
+
+  const validByteUpperBound =
+    availableSigns.length *
+    Math.floor(numberOfPossibleByteValues / availableSigns.length);
+  // Generating more bytes than the required length,
+  // proportionally to how many values will be omitted
+  // due to uniformness requirement,
+  // to lower the chances of having to draw again
+  const drawBytes = Math.floor(
+    length * (1 + 2 * (1 - validByteUpperBound / numberOfPossibleByteValues)),
+  );
+
+  let str = '';
+
+  while (str.length < length) {
+    const rand = crypto.randomBytes(drawBytes);
+
+    for (let i = 0; str.length < length && i < drawBytes; i++) {
+      if (rand[i] < validByteUpperBound) {
+        const index = rand[i] % availableSigns.length;
+        str += availableSigns.charAt(index);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  return str;
+}
+
+export { calculateMaxTextWidth, generateRandomString };
diff --git a/web/utils/text-utils.test.js b/web/utils/text-utils.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..57277f114
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/utils/text-utils.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+// @flow
+
+import { generateRandomString } from './text-utils';
+
+describe('generateRandomString', () => {
+  it('should return an empty string when passed length = 0', () => {
+    expect(generateRandomString(0, 'abcde')).toMatch(/^$/);
+    expect(generateRandomString(0, '')).toMatch(/^$/);
+  });
+
+  it(
+    'should return a random string of length equal to length argument, ' +
+      'containig only characters given in availableSigns',
+    () => {
+      const length1 = 100;
+      const availableSigns1 = 'abcde';
+      expect(generateRandomString(length1, availableSigns1)).toMatch(
+        new RegExp(`^[${availableSigns1}]{${length1.toString()}}$`),
+      );
+
+      const length2 = 10;
+      const availableSigns2 = 'abcde0123456789!@#$%^&*';
+      expect(generateRandomString(length2, availableSigns2)).toMatch(
+        new RegExp(`^[${availableSigns2}]{${length2.toString()}}$`),
+      );
+
+      const length3 = 10;
+      const availableSigns3 = 'a';
+      expect(generateRandomString(length3, availableSigns3)).toMatch(
+        new RegExp(`^[${availableSigns3}]{${length3.toString()}}$`),
+      );
+    },
+  );
+
+  it('should throw an error when length is negative', () => {
+    expect(() => generateRandomString(-1, 'abc')).toThrow();
+    expect(() => generateRandomString(-1, '')).toThrow();
+    expect(() => generateRandomString(-123, 'abc')).toThrow();
+    expect(() => generateRandomString(-123, '')).toThrow();
+  });
+
+  it(
+    'should throw an error when availableSigns is an empty string, ' +
+      'and length is positive',
+    () => {
+      expect(() => generateRandomString(1, '')).toThrow();
+      expect(() => generateRandomString(10, '')).toThrow();
+    },
+  );
+
+  it('should throw an error when availableSigns length exceeds 256', () => {
+    const longString = 'a'.repeat(257);
+    expect(() => generateRandomString(1, longString)).toThrow();
+  });
+});