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Created December 20, 2014 22:36
Generating secure passwords in PHP
<?php
// usage: $newpassword = generatePassword(12); // for a 12-char password, upper/lower/numbers.
// functions that use rand() or mt_rand() are not secure according to the PHP manual.
function getRandomBytes($nbBytes = 32)
{
$bytes = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes($nbBytes, $strong);
if (false !== $bytes && true === $strong) {
return $bytes;
}