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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Extending uniqid() or not?
From: narf@devilix.net (Andrey Andreev)

Hi,

I know this thread is about uniqid(), but MCrypt and OpenSSL
extensions are already mentioned anyway.

I think the underlying problem here is that PHP doesn't provide a
cryptographically-secure PRNG generator by default. This might not be
a concern for uniqid() in particular, but it certainly is a problem.
Both of the above-mentioned extensions are optional and as such are
not the go-to choice for randomness in most applications. The lack of
a "by default" cryptography extension is another problem, but RNG is
more important.

Cheers,
Andrey.