Re: CSPRNG under windows.

hi,

I did not try to access it using COM, but if the scprng you want is
the default provider, you can simply call openssl_random_pseudo_bytes
which uses the same API that what you are trying to call (php
5.3.7RC+).

Cheers,

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:49 AM, cythrawll <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello PHP,
>
> I have plans on creating security framework for PHP websites, I would love
> to support windows but I am having trouble getting access to any sort of
> CSPRNG in windows, this is a bit of a problem....
>
> mcrypt supposedly will help with this, but I am having trouble finding
> easily accessible binaries that I could even dream of using it as a
> reasonable requirement for a framework.
>
> openssl_random_pseudo_bytes I hear has lots of entropy issues on windows...
> so it's not appropriate to use that either...
>
> I tried accessing the .NET csprng through DOTNET in PHP....
>
> $rand = new DOTNET('mscorlib',
> 'System.Security.Cryptography.RNGCryptoServiceProvider');
>
> $rand->GetBytes('somethinggoeshere');
>
> docs are here:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.cryptography.rngcryptoserviceprovider.aspx
>
> for some reason, no matter what I try to pass to GetBytes, won't work
> (throws wrong type exceptions), tried arrays, strings, various VARIANT
> objects... nothing seems to make it happy.
>
> So I am wondering, is there no easy way to get to a suitable CSPRNG in
> windows? If there is none am I the only one who sees a big problem with
> that?
>
> Love,
>
> Chad Minick
>
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