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A curated list of resources for learning about application security
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Random number generation #1

Closed harikt closed 9 years ago

harikt commented 9 years ago

I think https://github.com/ircmaxell/RandomLib library serves the needs than using urandom.

technion commented 9 years ago

Given it's a PHP library it's not useful to any other developer.

Why would you recommend a third party library in place of an incredibly well vetted OS feature?

harikt commented 9 years ago

Given it's a PHP library it's not useful to any other developer.

Ya, may not be good other than PHP developers.

Why would you recommend a third party library in place of an incredibly well vetted OS feature?

@technion Funny that you can recommend the blog. https://github.com/paragonie/awesome-appsec#ircmaxells-blog but not code.

technion commented 9 years ago

Do you have an actual problem with /dev/urandom or are you just pushing a library?

harikt commented 9 years ago

Do you have an actual problem with /dev/urandom

No. I have not used.

or are you just pushing a library?

I was to here from http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/34gv1i/a_curated_list_for_learning_about_application/ . ie a PHP related one I believe. So I thought if someone needs they can use the library too.

Hope that helps. Do you think the library is not strong enough to create random number ?

Thank you

paragonie-scott commented 9 years ago

Closed by https://github.com/paragonie/awesome-appsec/commit/16ca455a435cc625b07cf699aabdd362b5e92a3b