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Received β€” 25 June 2026 ⏭ /r/netsec - Information Security News & Discussion

Getting the PID from random numbers in PHP

In my blog article I analyze how random numbers in older PHP versions were generated. It turns out you can, under certain circumstances, derive the id of the process which generated a random number!

While it has exactly 0 practical application, it was super fun to dig into the php's source code.

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