#47952 [Opn->WFx]: Access to OS randomness would be nice

ID: 47952 Updated by: scottmac@php.net 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: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-04-11 18:52:45] jking at jkingweb dot ca 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 this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=47952&edit=1