Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:15248 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 51422 invoked by uid 1010); 4 Mar 2005 10:22:54 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 51406 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2005 10:22:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pb1.pair.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Mar 2005 10:22:54 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.204.192.51 jdi.jdimedia.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([212.204.192.51:36869] helo=jdi.jdimedia.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity HEAD r(5124)) with SMTP id B2/23-29225-CF638224 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 05:22:52 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j24AMmdG004847 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:22:48 +0100 Received: from jdi.jdimedia.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (jdi.jdimedia.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02407-10-2 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:22:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j24AMeVa004798; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:22:42 +0100 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:22:40 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Mark Evans cc: internals@lists.php.net In-Reply-To: <2fd662a0050304021017e3a43c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <2fd662a0050304021017e3a43c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at jdimedia.nl Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Encryption Routines and PHP 5.1+ From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Mark Evans wrote: > 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. libmcrypt is LGPL, not GPL - which allows it to bundled it with PHP. > Is this planned or is this even an option? This is definitely not planned - we rather not bundle any library, and definitely not an LGPL library. Reinventing the wheel by providing encryption routines in PHP does not make sense really. PHP is meant to be a glue to provide access to libraries, and not meant to be reimplementing them. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org