Author: George Argyros

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The function is providing, at least at the systems tested :), $len bytes of entropy under any PHP installation or operating system. The execution time should be at most 10-20 ms in any system.

Modified by Padraic Brady as part of Zend Framework to use 25% of the original version's iterations.

 Methods

Generate a random string of the specified size

generate(int $size) : string

Parameters

$size

int

The size of the requested random string

Returns

stringA string of the requested size

Return an instance of Strength indicating the strength of the source

getStrength() : \SecurityLib\Strength

Returns

\SecurityLib\StrengthAn instance of one of the strength classes