Hi Rowan, On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Rowan Collins <rowan.coll...@gmail.com> wrote: > To me, uniqid() is useful because it is a quick way of getting a short > string that's likely to be fairly unique. If that is its purpose, then > making it slower, and its output longer, are not helping anybody. > > If it's purpose is to be truly random, and have controllable entropy, etc, > then we might as well deprecate it in favour of random_bytes().
Reasonable. Then enable more entropy and use php_random_byte() for it. Question is what format: - the same as now (digits and .) - convert alphanumeric [0-v] - convert to hex [0-f] Regards, -- Yasuo Ohgaki yohg...@ohgaki.net -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
