Re: Re: Crypt salts not random.. (fwd)

The seed was initialized in MINIT before the children forked. So what happened was that the children started returning the same random numbers. Andi At 12:52 PM 4/29/2001 +0300, Zeev Suraski wrote:

How did you arrive to the conclusion that the current crypt() salts are not random? At 11:27 29/4/2001, Jani Taskinen wrote:

Well, what's the deal with this? Sascha? --Jani ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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