note 80458 added to function.mt-rand

From: Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:00:10 +0000
Subject: note 80458 added to function.mt-rand
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note that OWASP's "Guide to Cryptography" says that a Mersenne Twister (that is used by mt_rand()) "is nowhere near as good as CryptoAPI’s secure random number generation options, OpenSSL, or /dev/urandom which is available on many Unix variants. mt_rand() has been noted to produce the same number on some platforms." remember that rand() is even weaker. ---- Server IP: 82.160.94.10 Probable Submitter: 89.174.41.179 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mt-rand.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/80458 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80458/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80458/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80458/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80458/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80458/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80458/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/80458 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/80458 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php

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