diff --git a/lib/securerandom.rb b/lib/securerandom.rb
index db1fcaab02..0bcd2b6af0 100644
--- a/lib/securerandom.rb
+++ b/lib/securerandom.rb
@@ -51,6 +51,16 @@ module SecureRandom
       return gen_random(n)
     end
 
+    # Compatibility methods for Ruby 3.2, we can remove this after dropping to support Ruby 3.2
+    def alphanumeric(n = nil, chars: ALPHANUMERIC)
+      if RUBY_VERSION < '3.3'
+        n = 16 if n.nil?
+        choose(chars, n)
+      else
+        super n, chars: chars
+      end
+    end
+
     private
 
     # :stopdoc:
diff --git a/test/test_securerandom.rb b/test/test_securerandom.rb
index 4c6bcf6f0e..765fbc9e0d 100644
--- a/test/test_securerandom.rb
+++ b/test/test_securerandom.rb
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ class TestSecureRandom < Test::Unit::TestCase
     @it = SecureRandom
   end
 
+  def test_alphanumeric_with_chars
+    assert_nothing_raised(ArgumentError) do
+      @it.alphanumeric(1, chars: ("0".."9").to_a)
+    end
+  end
+
   # This test took 2 minutes on my machine.
   # And 65536 times loop could not be enough for forcing PID recycle.
   # TODO: We should run this test only on GitHub Actions.