Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:15249 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17233 invoked by uid 1010); 4 Mar 2005 11:59:38 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17217 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2005 11:59:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 4 Mar 2005 11:59:38 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 212.204.192.51 jdi.jdimedia.nl Linux 2.5 (sometimes 2.4) (4) Received: from ([212.204.192.51:37420] helo=jdi.jdimedia.nl) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity HEAD r(5124)) with SMTP id 0A/D5-29225-9AD48224 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 06:59:38 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j24BxZU9017018 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:59:35 +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 13593-09-2 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:59:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jdi.jdimedia.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j24BxUJ0017003; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:59:30 +0100 Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:59:29 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: derick@localhost To: Matthew Charles Kavanagh cc: PHP Developers Mailing List In-Reply-To: <42284BED.1090003@teh.ath.cx> Message-ID: References: <2fd662a0050304021017e3a43c@mail.gmail.com> <42284BED.1090003@teh.ath.cx> 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, Matthew Charles Kavanagh wrote: > Derick Rethans wrote: > > 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. > > The issue in my mind is one of portability. It would be nice, as a > developer working in PHP, to be able to rely on functionality like > encryption (and other unrelated goodies) being available on Joe User's > $5/month webhost who don't go around installing fancy packages. Get a better webhost. If you want to use PHP's more advanced (and less used) extensions you need to pick a better host. And CC the mailinglist! Derick