Re: Make mcrypt_create_iv() an alias and move the code into /ext/standard

Hi Thomas, On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Thomas Hruska <thruska@cubiclesoft.com>wrote: > mcrypt_create_iv() is the cleanest access to a universal system-level > primitive that supports both /dev/urandom and php_win32_get_random_bytes() > under the hood. Unfortunately, it resides in /ext/mcrypt and the mcrypt > extension isn't always enabled/available (nor should it be). At any rate, > it is quite odd that the function php_win32_get_random_bytes() is compiled > into the core of PHP by default under Windows but there's currently no way > to get at it except through an extension. There's good code in > mcrypt_create_iv() that is significantly useful outside of the rest of that > extension and it isn't actually dependent upon libmcrypt for proper > operation. > We already have something similar to that in password.c: http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_6/ext/standard/password.c#111 It shouldn't be hard to turn this into an API function so that other code written against php can use it for their own purposes. > Moving the guts of this non-dependent function into the core would allow > mcrypt_create_iv() to just become an alias. The new userland function > could be located in /ext/standard/rand.c and have an uncreative name like > rand_bytes(). > > -- > Thomas Hruska > CubicleSoft President > > I've got great, time saving software that you will find useful. > > http://cubiclesoft.com/ > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- -- Tjerk