Hi all, sarciszewski here. I've registered because I intend to submit an RFC to deprecate MCRYPT_RAND in favor of herding developers towards a more robust MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM solution for generating random numbers (for IVs, nonces, and/or application-level encryption keys).
See also: https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/579#issuecomment-37357596 Thanks, Scott Arciszewski
