Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:79557 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 18050 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2014 07:11:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Dec 2014 07:11:56 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.216 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.216 imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.216] ([192.64.116.216:39270] helo=imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id BF/E1-05320-BB349845 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:11:56 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F842400D0; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:11:52 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap10.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap10.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id L6M28dsLJY-i; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:11:52 -0500 (EST) Received: from [137.50.174.82] (oa-edu-174-82.wireless.abdn.ac.uk [137.50.174.82]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 657972400C2; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:11:52 -0500 (EST) References: <5487E91D.6070602@fedoraproject.org> <648FEBB3-9D71-4AE3-BFDA-5ED268FC02A7@ajf.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <86DF40E7-609F-4B2B-B134-CDC0C0241C20@ajf.me> Cc: Remi Collet , PHP internals X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (12B435) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:11:47 +0000 To: Pierre Joye Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] libmcrypt: abandonware? From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) > On 11 Dec 2014, at 06:54, Pierre Joye wrote: >=20 >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Andrea Faulds wrote:=20 >>=20 >> It=92s my understanding that ext/mcrypt is quite widely used. Would it no= t be possible to update the lib to use OpenSSL or something on the backend, s= o existing applications would not need changing? >=20 > I suppose you mean to replace the functions implementation to use > openssl + some custom codes? As maintaining our own library is not > going to be a good idea :) Yes. Essentially it would be a polyfill that uses a crypto library that's ac= tually maintained. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/=