On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 at 17:27, Marco Pivetta <ocram...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  * `uniqid()`, in my case (XKCD 1172) is largely used for quickly
> generating a semi-random string for test purposes: a suitable replacement
> PRNG implementation would be welcome. Even refactoring with tools like
> Rector will lead to quite messy code, or added dependencies. IMO fine to
> get rid of **this specific implementation**, if a safe function is
> provided, such as `random_ascii_string()` or such (dunno, just a hint)
>

Update: Tim gave me a decent alternative that I can live with.

`uniqid()` becomes `bin2hex(random_bytes(16))`.

I can live with that :-)

Marco Pivetta

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