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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] More powerful (and backward compatible) API of random number generator functions
From: bryan@ravensight.org ("Bryan C. Geraghty")

Actually, a better approach is to use /dev/urandom to seed a PRG.

See my previous email in this thread regarding the FIPS approved generators.

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Leigh [mailto:leight@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 6:27 PM
To: Marc Bennewitz
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] More powerful (and backward compatible) API of random
number generator functions

On 30 August 2013 20:58, Marc Bennewitz <php@marc-bennewitz.de> wrote:

> what is the best algorithm?


Well that is platform dependant. For example on FreeBSD you'd hope
/dev/random was used (which does not block like linux, and generates a
crypto quality pseudo-random stream)

Point being, "best" is not easily defined by a constant.