note 28446 deleted from function.rand by irchtml

Note Submitter: ogresamanosuke@hotmail.com ---- In addition to the above password code, you could also use 'gettimeofday' to get a random string, MD5 it, and substr it down to your desired value. The problem of this, of course, is it can be deciphered if the time of day the pass was made is figured out. (IE: if a hacker knew it was between 5:10am and 5:15am on X day, he could shorten his checking area) The nice advantage of the method you posted is that you not only control what content, but it actually takes less time to do it in that fashion. The one thing I can suggest to anyone taking the example though, is to replace this line: $password .= substr($passwordChars,$randomNumber-1,1) with this line: $password.=$passwordChars{$randomNumber}; to speed things up a little. (Microseconds, but still.)