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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Reliable user-land CSPRNG
From: smalyshev@gmail.com (Stanislav Malyshev)

Hi!

> I'm cool with that idea but I also think it should be spelled out like `
> random_crypto_*()` as Pierre suggests. I like `secure_random_bytes()` but
> that's because it's what Ruby names their CSPRNG. :)

The custom is that the first word names the function group (yes, I know
old functions do not follow it, but this is new one). Unless we're going
to introduce a group of functions called secure_*, random_* is a natural
choice. I would be careful with using words like "secure", "crypto" etc.
in general because they may be easily misunderstood - something like
random_bytes() would do as well I think.
-- 
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@gmail.com