Just noticed a commit from Pierre last week 
http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=313112 which changed OpenSSL 
to use a special Windows API call for gathering random data.

I've reverted this change so we can discuss this further.

I disagree with advertising a library function and changing it to use something 
else. Especially when this is around random data / encryption. The OpenSSL 
library has been audited externally, if there is a better alternative then this 
patch should go upstream rather than being hacked into PHP.

If we want to offer this as win32_random_data() then I'm also fine with that.

- Scott
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