Yet another case of trying to be too clever with randomness!
Tag Archives: random numbers
Security is not easy
Security is not easy. Programmers should leave things like random number and identifier generation to a library (or at least research the best way to do it). A lot of projects learned it the hard way.
Let’s talk for instance of a function I encountered about six months ago:
function generateRandomKey($len = 20)
{
$string = ”;
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