ID: 47952
Updated by: [email protected]
Reported By: jking at jkingweb dot ca
-Status: Open
+Status: Wont fix
Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 5.2.9
New Comment:
It's not in the manual yet but you'll find
openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() in PHP 5.3 that accesses the underlying
PRNG.
We could add this to PHP itself, but I think letting OpenSSL being
responsible for this is better in case we make a mistake.
Previous Comments:
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[2009-04-11 18:52:45] jking at jkingweb dot ca
Description:
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The other day I wrote a PHP implementation of a spec which mandates
using a cryptographically-secure random number generator. For most Unix
systems this is easy (/dev/urandom or /dev/random), but getting access
to such a source in PHP for Windows seems impossible.
I thought it might be beneficial for PHP to expose the best source of
randomness availble via fopen("php://random") or some such. I confess I
don't know how difficult this would be to do, but it would certainly be
more feasible for PHP itself to pull this off in a cross-platform
fashion than for little old me writing software from within PHP.
Reproduce code:
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>From manual page: wrappers.php
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