From: jking at jkingweb dot ca
Operating system:
PHP version: 5.2.9
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Access to OS randomness would be nice
Description:
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The other day I wrote a PHP implementation of a spec which mandates using
a cryptographically-secure random number generator. For most Unix systems
this is easy (/dev/urandom or /dev/random), but getting access to such a
source in PHP for Windows seems impossible.
I thought it might be beneficial for PHP to expose the best source of
randomness availble via fopen("php://random") or some such. I confess I
don't know how difficult this would be to do, but it would certainly be
more feasible for PHP itself to pull this off in a cross-platform fashion
than for little old me writing software from within PHP.
Reproduce code:
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Expected behavior:
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Submitted twice:
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