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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 17:14:44 -0500
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To: Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net>
Cc: Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net>, "internals@lists.php.net" <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PRNG: Raise warning and/or provide better pseudo random generator?
From: scott@paragonie.com (Scott Arciszewski)

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:
> Hi Andrey,
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Andrey Andreev <narf@devilix.net> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:30 PM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohgaki@ohgaki.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> IMO, we should provide better pseudo random generators than now.
>>
>>
>> We already have a better PRNG in random_int().
>
> randon_int() is _not_ a alternative of rand()/mt_rand() as they cannot
> produce the same pseudo random numbers. e.g. Games etc requires
> the same pseudo random numbers.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Yasuo Ohgaki
> yohgaki@ohgaki.net
>
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