note 25004 added to function.mt-srand

mt_srand() and srand() are wrong: one should only use them to create reproducible pseudo-random sequences, but in a limited set of choices. A make_seed() function will not help solve this problem, because of the limited range of the seed. It would have been better that srand() and mt_rand() accept an entropy string of any length, to initialize its internal state. Isn't it possible to imagine a randfeed() and mt_randfeed() call, to send this data as a less limited string seed, where we can collect various sources of entropy such as microtime(), getmypid(), diskfreespace() if accessible, the request string, cookies, remote user name if working in a session, form data, ... The feed call could be used several times and could be used with arrays such as $_GET, $_POST, ... -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mt-srand.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+25004 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+25004 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+25004