Re: Make mcrypt_create_iv() an alias and move the code into /ext/standard
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Fri, 07 Feb 2014 11:32:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Make mcrypt_create_iv() an alias and move the code into /ext/standard | ||
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On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Tjerk Meesters
<tjerk.meesters@gmail.com> wrote:
> Speaking of which, it would be nice if session id generation depended on
> this shiny new API as well ... basically we solve two problems:
>
> 1. An easy way to get a bunch of random bytes
> 2. Centralize random number generation internally, i.e. session ids and
> password salts are generated with it.
>
> I'm not sure whether this should extend to providing an easy way to
> generate crypto safe random numbers, but that would obviously be nice if
> feasible.
See my other post today about unifying entropy source. We may discuss
that there.
--
Pierre
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