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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:10:32 +0100
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Subject: Encryption Routines and PHP 5.1+
From: markright@gmail.com (Mark Evans)

Hi All

I am sorry if this has been asked before... I have searched the
internals list and also many of the other php lists but couldnt find
any conclusive answer.

The question is, are there any plans to include integrated encryption
routines in the php core?

At the moment the optional mcrypt library is needed and this is often
not installed so a fall back is needed were the routines are written
in pure php.

Since the mcrypt library is released under the GPL and php under the
php 3.0 licence I guess the option to integrate the solutions isnt
available so the other option would be for php to include their own
encryption routines.

Is this planned or is this even an option?

Also as you can imagine trying to do asymmetrical encryption in pure
php isnt very efficient so if the above is planned would it at the
same time be possible to include so kind of asymmetrical routine such
as diffie-hellman or the like?

Many thanks for any response.

Regards

Mark