On 6/15/2016 9:31 PM, Niklas Keller wrote: > Quoting from PHP.net: > > PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially > suited to web development. >
Quoting from Wikipedia: > PHP is a server-side scripting language designed for web development > but also used as a general-purpose programming language. But let use stop that now. I already wrote that someone should come up with use cases for predictable random numbers other than creating insecure secrets. This is the main problem that needs solving, people using this stuff without knowing what they do. Keep in mind that anyone or anything (company) that requires predictable random numbers for their software (e.g. game) wants to have more control over distribution and ways to tweak it. Hence, they will directly implement it straight on their own anyways. Business rules are more important in such domains than readily available built-in stuff. Otherwise many people would not have jobs. :P If they really don't want to they can still fall back to PECL. I really do not see the shared hosting as a big argument here because shared hosting directly falls back to web application and -- as I said before -- in this context the requirement for predictable random numbers is pretty much nil. Just proof me wrong and show me where it is needed. Drupal? Symfony? Zend? Wordpress? PhpBB? ...? -- Richard "Fleshgrinder" Fussenegger
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