[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #15088: Reduce Remote Dependency of the Network Admin

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#15088: Reduce Remote Dependency of the Network Admin
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 Reporter:  hakre                     |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request           |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                    |   Milestone:
Component:  General                   |     Version:  3.0
 Severity:  normal                    |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch dev-feedback  |
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Comment (by hakre):

 Replying to [comment:11 dd32]:
 > > that if /dev/urandom is available on the local system, the remote
 request would not be necessary at all?
 >
 > It's not as simple as that.
 >
 > Yes, If a true random source is available locally, then a remote request
 would not be required.

 Thanks for clarification.


 >
 > However, A significant proportion of !WordPress installations are in
 environments where !WordPress are unable to either a) determine if they
 have a random source available and accessible or b) unable to rely upon
 said random source.

 Can you share more information about how significant that proportion of
 WordPress installations actually is?

 I can imagine the problems you're talking about, that's no different as
 requesting some remote API it just might fail as well.

 > In the standard wp-config.php generator, we offer the ?no-api call to
 bypass remote API calls, I'm not sure if something similar is offered for
 the Network Creator.

 Yes, ?no-api was introduced in [13232] it has not been explicitly
 discussed in the related #12159.

 I wonder if it's possible to get the code that works on the remote site to
 genreate the salts and offer it with core. If the better random source is
 not available, current options do still work but if it truly is, then this
 is what I'm looking for.

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