From 2d6ad1660755b442d1e89dbe16b7b38ef77a81d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ruben de Vries Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:44:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Added Simply Random as random numbers generating alternative Very simple library that only uses MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM, which is 'the right thing to do' instead of all the libs that go and do their own custom mixing of various other libs. see: http://timoh6.github.io/2013/11/05/Secure-random-numbers-for-PHP-developers.html and more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6216101 http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/3936/is-a-rand-from-dev-urandom-secure-for-a-login-key/3939#3939 --- README.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3af3ea3..fef3f2b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php/blob/master/CONT * [HTML Purifier](https://github.com/ezyang/htmlpurifier) - A standards compliant HTML filter. * [RandomLib](https://github.com/ircmaxell/RandomLib) - A library for generating random numbers and strings. +* [Simply Random](https://github.com/blocktrail/simply-random-php) - A library for generating random numbers and strings using MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM. * [True Random](https://github.com/pixeloution/true-random) - A library that generates random numbers using [www.random.org](http://www.random.org/). * [SecurityMultiTool](https://github.com/padraic/SecurityMultiTool) - A PHP security library. * [PHPSecLib](http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/) - A pure PHP secure communications library.