Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:79520 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 89815 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2014 06:33:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Dec 2014 06:33:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=remi@fedoraproject.org; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=remi@fedoraproject.org; spf=permerror; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: error (pb1.pair.com: domain fedoraproject.org from 217.70.183.195 cause and error) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: remi@fedoraproject.org X-Host-Fingerprint: 217.70.183.195 relay3-d.mail.gandi.net Received: from [217.70.183.195] ([217.70.183.195:51758] helo=relay3-d.mail.gandi.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 4B/5B-09154-129E7845 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 01:33:08 -0500 Received: from mfilter10-d.gandi.net (mfilter10-d.gandi.net [217.70.178.139]) by relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E49A80AD for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:33:03 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mfilter10-d.gandi.net Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]) by mfilter10-d.gandi.net (mfilter10-d.gandi.net [10.0.15.180]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8b0AJwY5Z2lm for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:33:01 +0100 (CET) X-Originating-IP: 82.241.130.121 Received: from schrodingerscat.famillecollet.com (pom51-2-82-241-130-121.fbx.proxad.net [82.241.130.121]) (Authenticated sender: contact@ll-experts.com) by relay3-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A8ADEA8092 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:33:01 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <5487E91D.6070602@fedoraproject.org> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:33:01 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: internals@lists.php.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] libmcrypt: abandonware? From: remi@fedoraproject.org (Remi Collet) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Le 05/12/2014 17:17, Scott Arciszewski a =C3=A9crit : > Hi PHP Internals, >=20 > I've been trying to get in contact with the maintainers of > libmcrypt, but every response I've gotten was, "Oh, I haven't been > a part of that for years." >=20 > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcrypt/files/Libmcrypt/ >=20 > The last update to libmcrypt was in 2007. There are bug fixes in > their issue tracker collecting dust. Having a dead upstream for crypto API is a critical issue :( FYI some downstream (ex RHEL) don't even provide this library. Already too much crypto libraries, and it will be a mess to provide a dead project in an Enterprise distribution. So php/mcrypt also not available. But most applications. which use it, usually have alternative, and make it optional (ex phpMyAdmin 4.3 now even use openssl as first choice)= . We probably have enough crypto API in PHP, and we probably should mark this one as deprecated / unmaintained in 5.x, and move it to PECL (7.x). Remi. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlSH6R0ACgkQYUppBSnxahiRdQCg6IKC9hfJavD9QE3dXEVc8o4t H+kAoIWLbVRwS5qfidJi8Yq/F/NQ7vlH =3DosvZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----