Re: Crypt salts not random.. (fwd)
| From: | Jani Taskinen | Date: | Sun, 29 Apr 2001 08:27:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Crypt salts not random.. (fwd) | ||
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Well, what's the deal with this? Sascha?
--Jani
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:05:08 +0200
From: Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com>
To: Jani Taskinen <sniper@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: Crypt salts not random..
At 06:17 AM 4/28/2001 +0200, Jani Taskinen wrote:
>One thing I had in my mind about these random numbers..
>Why don't we use the seedMT() and randomMT() funcs everywhere
>instead of the system provided ones? If I have understood
>correctly these would give more random numbers and are even
>faster than any of the system provided ones? Or have I missed
>some important thing here? :)
I really don't know this random stuff too well. It looks to me as if we
could use the MT stuff but I'm not sure what the considerations are.
Probably Sascha Schumann has a better idea. I also suggest php-dev :)
Andi