diff --git a/app/dao/users_dao.py b/app/dao/users_dao.py
index fd1723fc7..fce62a576 100644
--- a/app/dao/users_dao.py
+++ b/app/dao/users_dao.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from datetime import (datetime, timedelta)
 from sqlalchemy import func
 from app import db
 from app.models import (User, VerifyCode)
-
+from app import secrets
 
 def _remove_values_for_keys_if_present(dict, keys):
     for key in keys:
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ def _remove_values_for_keys_if_present(dict, keys):
 
 
 def create_secret_code():
+    '''
+    L1 = []
+    for i in range(0, 5):
+        L1.append(secrets.randbelow(10))    #return cryptographically strong random number using secrets module
+    L2 = ''.join(map(str, L1))
+    return L2
+    '''
     return ''.join(map(str, random.sample(range(9), 5)))
 
 
diff --git a/app/secrets.py b/app/secrets.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..70040d69a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/secrets.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+__all__ = ['choice', 'randbelow', 'randbits', 'SystemRandom',
+           'token_bytes', 'token_hex', 'token_urlsafe',
+           'compare_digest',
+           ]
+
+
+import base64
+import binascii
+import os
+
+from hmac import compare_digest
+from random import SystemRandom
+
+_sysrand = SystemRandom()
+
+randbits = _sysrand.getrandbits
+choice = _sysrand.choice
+
+def randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound):
+    """Return a random int in the range [0, n)."""
+    if exclusive_upper_bound <= 0:
+        raise ValueError("Upper bound must be positive.")
+    return _sysrand._randbelow(exclusive_upper_bound)
+
+DEFAULT_ENTROPY = 32  # number of bytes to return by default
+
+def token_bytes(nbytes=None):
+    """Return a random byte string containing *nbytes* bytes.
+    If *nbytes* is ``None`` or not supplied, a reasonable
+    default is used.
+    >>> token_bytes(16)  #doctest:+SKIP
+    b'\\xebr\\x17D*t\\xae\\xd4\\xe3S\\xb6\\xe2\\xebP1\\x8b'
+    """
+    if nbytes is None:
+        nbytes = DEFAULT_ENTROPY
+    return os.urandom(nbytes)
+
+def token_hex(nbytes=None):
+    """Return a random text string, in hexadecimal.
+    The string has *nbytes* random bytes, each byte converted to two
+    hex digits.  If *nbytes* is ``None`` or not supplied, a reasonable
+    default is used.
+    >>> token_hex(16)  #doctest:+SKIP
+    'f9bf78b9a18ce6d46a0cd2b0b86df9da'
+    """
+    return binascii.hexlify(token_bytes(nbytes)).decode('ascii')
+
+def token_urlsafe(nbytes=None):
+    """Return a random URL-safe text string, in Base64 encoding.
+    The string has *nbytes* random bytes.  If *nbytes* is ``None``
+    or not supplied, a reasonable default is used.
+    >>> token_urlsafe(16)  #doctest:+SKIP
+    'Drmhze6EPcv0fN_81Bj-nA'
+    """
+    tok = token_bytes(nbytes)
+    return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(tok).rstrip(b'=').decode('ascii')
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