GitHub URL for [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Platform and extension-independent API to the system CSPRNG

I forgot the URL: https://github.com/tom--/php-cs_random_bytesemo :X tom On 1/8/12 8:56 PM, "Tom Worster" <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote: >I have also set up a github repo with 4 files in it. It is a first hack >of >a function that does part of what I described in the RFC. It's based on >the interface of openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() and the guts of >mcrypt_create_iv(). It is provisionally named cs_random_bytes(). > >For now it builds and works at least this much: > >$ sapi/cli/php -r 'echo bin2hex(cs_random_bytes(8)) . PHP_EOL;' >4cd0965922470560 > > >The hard work will be implementing the $is_strong_result flag in a >platform independent way. You need to read the status of the entropy >pool. >The current code does that for Linux (maybe?). On FreeBSD you use >sysctl(3) to read kern.random.sys.seeded. On OS X you ask securityd. >Windows is actually easier. > >And what about other OSs? What is PHP normally tested on and would that >be >a suitable guide for cs_random_bytes()? > >In any case, I am no C programmer. I'm just a web dev. I don't even know >how to ask if sysctl(3) is present. > > >Tom > > >On 1/8/12 7:42 PM, "Tom Worster" <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote: > >>I added the new RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/csrandombytes >>which is in >>its >>first draft.