laravel/laravel.com — pull request #18 by Jakobud (2012-08-15 17:49:53+00:00)
Title: Added a route at `http://laravel.com/application-key`

The purpose of this route is to provide a very simple and basic tool for users to generate a random, 32 character string that they can use for their application key.

This uri does not need to be linked to from anywhere on laravel.com or anything like that. I will be submitting another pull request to the laravel develop branch that will add to the application key comments, telling users about this URL they can use to generate a random application key. Then they just copy/paste the key into their application.php and they are good to go.

Coming up with a random 32 character key is easy to do for anyone. But sometimes developers can be lazy, or they might ignore or forget to set this key in their application.php file. This feature is a small, simple tool for users that can help promote and improve the security of their Laravel sites.

Wordpress.org does something similar to this for settings in their wp-config.php at: `https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/`. This was the inspiration for this feature.

Signed-off-by: Jakobud