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

I added it at the top, I hope that's ok. the URL is https://github.com/tom--/php-cs_random_bytes Thanks for pointing that out Tom On 1/9/12 7:54 AM, "Pierre Joye" <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote: >pls add it to the RFC, the right one as this one is a 404. > >On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote: >> 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. >> >> >> >> -- >> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > > >-- >Pierre > >@pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | Åx > Õd9ç¹9§~÷ðhttp://www.libgd.org