pls add it to the RFC, the right one as this one is a 404. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Tom Worster <f...@thefsb.org> wrote: > I forgot the URL: https://github.com/tom--/php-cs_random_bytesemo > > :X > > tom > > On 1/8/12 8:56 PM, "Tom Worster" <f...@thefsb.org> wrote: > >>I have also set up a github repo with 4 files in it. It is a first hack >>of >>a function that does part of what I described in the RFC. It's based on >>the interface of openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() and the guts of >>mcrypt_create_iv(). It is provisionally named cs_random_bytes(). >> >>For now it builds and works at least this much: >> >>$ sapi/cli/php -r 'echo bin2hex(cs_random_bytes(8)) . PHP_EOL;' >>4cd0965922470560 >> >> >>The hard work will be implementing the $is_strong_result flag in a >>platform independent way. You need to read the status of the entropy >>pool. >>The current code does that for Linux (maybe?). On FreeBSD you use >>sysctl(3) to read kern.random.sys.seeded. On OS X you ask securityd. >>Windows is actually easier. >> >>And what about other OSs? What is PHP normally tested on and would that >>be >>a suitable guide for cs_random_bytes()? >> >>In any case, I am no C programmer. I'm just a web dev. I don't even know >>how to ask if sysctl(3) is present. >> >> >>Tom >> >> >>On 1/8/12 7:42 PM, "Tom Worster" <f...@thefsb.org> wrote: >> >>>I added the new RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/csrandombytes which is in >>>its >>>first draft. > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >
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