diff --git a/src/templates/index.html b/src/templates/index.html
index 872367c9a..4962560b6 100644
--- a/src/templates/index.html
+++ b/src/templates/index.html
@@ -187,12 +187,23 @@
 
             function randomPadName()
             {
-                var chars = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
-                var string_length = 10;
+                // the number of distinct chars (64) is chosen to ensure that
+                // the selection will be uniform when using the PRNG below
+                var chars = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz-_";
+                // the length of the pad name is chosen to get 120-bit security:
+                // log2(64^20) = 120
+                var string_length = 20;
+                // make room for 8-bit integer values that span from 0 to 255.
+                var randomarray = new Uint8Array(string_length);
+                // use browser's PRNG to generate a "unique" sequence
+                var cryptoObj = window.crypto || window.msCrypto; // for IE 11
+                cryptoObj.getRandomValues(randomarray);
                 var randomstring = '';
                 for (var i = 0; i < string_length; i++)
                 {
-                    var rnum = Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length);
+                    // instead of writing "Math.floor(randomarray[i]/256*64)"
+                    // we can save some cycles.
+                    var rnum = Math.floor(randomarray[i]/4);
                     randomstring += chars.substring(rnum, rnum + 1);
                 }
                 return randomstring;