diff --git a/lib/authorizer/digest.js b/lib/authorizer/digest.js
index 46ccc431d..b4f975511 100644
--- a/lib/authorizer/digest.js
+++ b/lib/authorizer/digest.js
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ var _ = require('lodash'),
     urlEncoder = require('postman-url-encoder'),
     RequestBody = require('postman-collection').RequestBody,
     bodyBuilder = require('../requester/core-body-builder'),
+    AuthUtils = require('./util'),
 
     EMPTY = '',
     ONE = '00000001',
@@ -17,8 +18,6 @@ var _ = require('lodash'),
     AUTH_INT = 'auth-int',
     AUTHORIZATION = 'Authorization',
     MD5_SESS = 'MD5-sess',
-    ASCII_SOURCE = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789',
-    ASCII_SOURCE_LENGTH = ASCII_SOURCE.length,
     USERNAME_EQUALS_QUOTE = 'username="',
     REALM_EQUALS_QUOTE = 'realm="',
     NONCE_EQUALS_QUOTE = 'nonce="',
@@ -98,26 +97,6 @@ if (!_.includes(crypto.getHashes(), 'sha512-256')) {
     });
 }
 
-/**
- * Generates a random string of given length
- *
- * @todo Move this to util.js. After moving use that for hawk auth too
- * @param {Number} length
- */
-function randomString (length) {
-    length = length || 6;
-
-    var result = [],
-        i;
-
-    for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
-        result[i] = ASCII_SOURCE[(Math.random() * ASCII_SOURCE_LENGTH) | 0];
-    }
-
-    return result.join(EMPTY);
-}
-
-
 /**
  * Extracts a Digest Auth field from a WWW-Authenticate header value using a given regexp.
  *
@@ -321,7 +300,7 @@ module.exports = {
             qop && (authParams.qop = qop);
 
             if (authParams.qop || auth.get(QOP)) {
-                authParams.clientNonce = randomString(8);
+                authParams.clientNonce = AuthUtils.randomString(8);
                 authParams.nonceCount = ONE;
             }
 
diff --git a/lib/authorizer/hawk.js b/lib/authorizer/hawk.js
index 0bb684672..325ffb3c8 100644
--- a/lib/authorizer/hawk.js
+++ b/lib/authorizer/hawk.js
@@ -5,29 +5,9 @@ var url = require('url'),
     RequestBody = require('postman-collection').RequestBody,
     bodyBuilder = require('../requester/core-body-builder'),
     urlEncoder = require('postman-url-encoder'),
+    AuthUtils = require('./util'),
 
-    ASCII_SOURCE = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789',
-    ASCII_SOURCE_LENGTH = ASCII_SOURCE.length,
-    AUTHORIZATION = 'Authorization',
-    EMPTY = '';
-
-/**
- * Generates a random string of given length (useful for nonce generation, etc).
- *
- * @param {Number} length
- */
-function randomString (length) {
-    length = length || 6;
-
-    var result = [],
-        i;
-
-    for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
-        result[i] = ASCII_SOURCE[(Math.random() * ASCII_SOURCE_LENGTH) | 0];
-    }
-
-    return result.join(EMPTY);
-}
+    AUTHORIZATION = 'Authorization';
 
 /**
  * Calculates body hash with given algorithm and digestEncoding.
@@ -151,7 +131,7 @@ module.exports = {
      * @param {AuthHandlerInterface~authPreHookCallback} done
      */
     pre: function (auth, done) {
-        !auth.get('nonce') && auth.set('nonce', randomString(6));
+        !auth.get('nonce') && auth.set('nonce', AuthUtils.randomString(6));
         !_.parseInt(auth.get('timestamp')) && auth.set('timestamp', Math.floor(Date.now() / 1e3));
         done(null, true);
     },
diff --git a/lib/authorizer/util.js b/lib/authorizer/util.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2d7502afe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/authorizer/util.js
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+var ASCII_SOURCE = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789',
+    ASCII_SOURCE_LENGTH = ASCII_SOURCE.length,
+    EMPTY = '';
+
+module.exports = {
+
+    /**
+    * Generates a random string of given length
+    *
+    * @param {Number} length
+    * @returns {String}
+    */
+    randomString: function (length) {
+        length = length || 6;
+
+        var result = [],
+            i;
+
+        for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
+            result[i] = ASCII_SOURCE[(Math.random() * ASCII_SOURCE_LENGTH) | 0];
+        }
+
+        return result.join(EMPTY);
+    }
+
+};