Category: csprng

Day Camp 4 Developers: PHP Application Security

Application security is on everybody’s mind these days. Every day we hear of another site hacked or another data breach. Does your team do everything it can to keep your site secure and your data safe?Day Camp 4 Developers is a semi-regular online meetup of developers who want to teach people things that don’...

Randomness in PHP – Do You Feel Lucky?

This article analyzes problems related to random number generation used for cryptography purposes. PHP 5 does not provide an easy mechanism for generating cryptographically strong random numbers, while PHP 7 solves this by introducing a couple of CSPRNG functions. What is a CSPRNG? Quoting Wikipedia, a Cryptographic...