Guess you're right ;-D Thanks! -- (c) Kenan Sulayman Freelance Designer and Programmer
Life's Live Poetry 2009/3/4 Stefan Walk <e...@php.net> > > On 4 Mar 2009, at 15:46, Kenan Sulayman wrote: > > Hey Pierre! >> >> Didn't I included the mt_rand function in my tests ? >> >> Quote: "Average of mersenne twister in 8016909 it's is 1073848211.4106 ( >> corresponding to that in 8503575 it's the avg. is 1073904131.0286)." >> >> The mail was meant to make the rand(x) function more good; >> I already use the mt_rand() function, but why should the rand(x) function >> still be used, if it's so freakin' insecure ? >> > > I hope that by "insecure" you don't imply that you're using those > pseudorandom generators for cryptography purposes. As the manual states, > rand() uses the libc rand(), which can be desirable if you want to generate > the same sequence of numbers across languages. And you don't need to > complain about its drawbacks, because they are well-known (see < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator#Advantages_and_disadvantages_of_LCGs>). > If you want "secure" random numbers, use something that at least tries to > utilize "real" entropy. But that topic has nothing to do with the > development of PHP ... > > Regards, > Stefan > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
