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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 23:53:53 -0500
From: Raphael Geissert <geissert@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: George Argyros <argyros.george@...il.com>,
Aggelos Kiayias <aggelos@...yias.com>,
Vladimir Vorontsov <vladimir.vorontsov@...ec.ru>,
gifts <gifts.antichat@...il.com>,
Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell@...il.com>,
Pierre Joye <pierre.php@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Randomness Attacks Against PHP Applications
On Sunday 23 September 2012 00:14:47 Solar Designer wrote:
> > I agree too that education is important. This is something that we
> > came to an agreement with the PHP team (for example that additional
> > information is needed on the mt_rand manual). However, as pointed out
> > nothing has changed yet (the conversations between us and the PHP team
> > took place in March/April).
>
> Did PHP 5.4's change of session IDs (vs. 5.3's) occur before or after
> your conversations with them?
If you are referring to using /dev/urandom for entropy by default, it was
changed because of:
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51436
in 2010.
Regards,
--
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net
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