Re: Improving PRNG implementation.

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 8:46 AM zeriyoshi <zeriyoshi@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice to meet you, internals. > Welcome! I'm about to knock down your suggestion a little, but please take it as constructive feedback. > First , PHP has the historical Mersenne Twister PRNG. However, this > implementation keeps its state in a global and cannot be handled as an > object like other languages (e.g. Java). > Can you clarify what object handling provides? Is the intent to have an expanded API for producing a reliably predictable series of numbers based on more finely tunable seeds? Iterable PRNG generator? > So, I created a PHP Extension and proposed it to PECL. > > https://marc.info/?l=pecl-dev&m=160795415604102&w=2 > https://github.com/zeriyoshi/php-ext-orng > Bundling extensions usually comes when an extension has shown widespread popularity/use. With all due respect, this repo is less than two weeks old and has 8 stars. Who needs this and why is it not services by the PRNG and CSPRNG options already available? > With the development of container technology, this problem seems to be > getting more serious. So I think we should use the random numbers provided > by the OS (getrandom on Linux) if available. > We've had that since 7.0: https://www.php.net/random_bytes https://www.php.net/random_int -Sara