note 80458 added to function.mt-rand
| From: | przemek at sobstel dot org | 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 CryptoAPIâs 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.
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