On 18 January 2017 at 16:06, Lauri Kenttä <lauri.ken...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If it's not acceptable to randomize the whole state, I'd recommend using > php_random_int_silent() to generate a single seed. This would be easy to > implement by simply changing GENERATE_SEED() into a function which first > tries php_random_int_silent() but has the current method as a fallback. This > would fix other use cases of GENERATE_SEED() as well.
You don't need to use the random_int functions, 4 bytes from php_random_bytes_silent cast into a uint32_t will give you an unbiased seed. (powers of 2 are unbiased) -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
