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Subject IdorLevel Senior–Staff~30 minCommon in Code quality & review interviewsIndustries Software development

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Review this Node.js password-reset token generator.

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const crypto = require('crypto'); function createResetToken(userId) {  const seed = Date.now() + ':' + userId;  const token = crypto.createHash('md5').update(seed).digest('hex');  resets.set(token, { userId, exp: Date.now() + 3600_000 });  return token;}// emailed as https://app/reset?token=<token>
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