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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Reliable user-land CSPRNG
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> For example, the number of users that actually need to do something
> better than read from /dev/urandom is small. A user that is concerned

Good summary read on the topic: http://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
TLDR: it's ok to use /dev/urandom.

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Stas Malyshev
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