Re: PRNG: Raise warning and/or provide better pseudo random generator?

From: Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:14:44 +0000
Subject: Re: PRNG: Raise warning and/or provide better pseudo random generator?
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote: > Hi Andrey, > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>> IMO, we should provide better pseudo random generators than now. >> >> >> We already have a better PRNG in random_int(). > > randon_int() is _not_ a alternative of rand()/mt_rand() as they cannot > produce the same pseudo random numbers. e.g. Games etc requires > the same pseudo random numbers. > > Regards, > > -- > Yasuo Ohgaki > yohgaki@ohgaki.net > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > Have I shared this here? https://github.com/paragonie/seedspring Warning: May summon Cthulhu if deployed to production. Scott Arciszewski Chief Development Officer Paragon Initiative Enterprises <https://paragonie.com>

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