#47952 [NEW]: Access to OS randomness would be nice

From: jking at jkingweb dot ca Operating system: PHP version: 5.2.9 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Access to OS randomness would be nice Description: ------------ 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: --------------- --- From manual page: wrappers.php --- -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47952&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=trysnapshot53 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=fixedcvs Fixed in CVS and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=47952&r=mysqlcfg