strRandomness

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Score events according to their randomness based on the Shannon entropy of the string value of the specified column. Higher scores are given to more random strings. If a string contains no duplicate characters, it gets the highest score. Strings with duplicate characters get lower scores.

Usage details

LQL Command

select *, strRandomness(column) as hashCode from tableName

-- column: column name to compute randomness score
-- tableName: name of a table

-- returnValue: randomnes (Shannon) of a string, if string contains no duplicate characters, it will get hightest score otherwise the more duplicate characters the string have less score it will get

Example

Input
table

id	password

id	password
1	axbyze@#fa23
2	aaaaaa

LQL command

select *, strRandomness(password) as passwordStrength from table

Output

id	password	passwordStrength

id	password	passwordStrength
1	axbyze@#fa23	6.0
2	aaaaaa	1.98