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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Pull Request 1513
From: anatol.php@belski.net ("Anatol Belski")

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Arciszewski [mailto:scott@paragonie.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 2:52 AM
> To: PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Pull Request 1513
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> Hi,
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> I wrote PR 1513 about two weeks ago to make the following enhancements =
to
> the CSPRNG feature in PHP 7:
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> * Use getrandom(2) on new Linux kernels
> * When reading from /dev/urandom, make sure it's actually a character =
device
> * On Linux, make sure that the device has a major ID of 1 and a minor =
ID of 9
> (which is the urandom device)
> * Removes /dev/arandom, as it was only available in deprecated =
versions of
> OpenBSD and modern versions will use arc4random_buf() anyway
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> I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could look over it, test it on =
weird machines,
> and let me know if it causes any issues. And then if we can get it =
merged by
> 7.0.0-RC4, I'd be estatic.
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> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/1513
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Was someone able to test this patch? It appears to be a good improvement =
for RC4.

Regards

Anatol