Re: [RFC][DISCUSSION] Improve uniqid() uniqueness
| From: | Yasuo Ohgaki | Date: | Tue, 13 Sep 2016 01:19:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC][DISCUSSION] Improve uniqid() uniqueness | ||
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On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:
>> I use
uniqid() daily in my test suites, even new ones (not
>> much else), and
>> introducing the . everywhere will just cause issues.
>> Changing string length may also break everything.
>
> It seems you have code that will be broken.
> Could you share the code and what it does?
BTW, my proposed code does not use "." at all.
More entropy is [0-v]{10} from php_random_bytes().
Regards,
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Yasuo Ohgaki
yohgaki@ohgaki.net