On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Tjerk Meesters
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's a wild idea; assuming for a second that rand() is actually fed by a
> proper entropy source, are there BC implications if we did that? :)
>
> Alternatively, we would be looking at dedicated random_ functions that
> provide a similar functionality and end up with an API such as:
>
> int random_integer($min, $max)
> string random_string($length, $crypto_safe)
>
> etc...
A good PRNG APIs will provides various weak implementations as well as
strong and crypto safe backend.
However, I would really try to only focus on the unification for the
entropy sources setting. We do not have the time to actually do a good
job/discussion/design about what would be a good PNRG APIs and
features, for 5.6.
Cheers,
--
Pierre
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