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To: Peter Lind <peter.e.lind@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP 7.1 Cryptography Projects
From: scott@paragonie.com (Scott Arciszewski)

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:26 AM, Peter Lind <peter.e.lind@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 August 2015 at 10:13, Lauri Kentt=C3=A4 <lauri.kentta@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>>
>> On 2015-08-03 23:54, Scott Arciszewski wrote:
>>>
>>>     $AES =3D new \PCO\Symmetric('openssl:cipher=3DAES-128');
>>
>>
>> It would be great if you could just ask for cipher=3DAES-128 without
>> explicitly specifying the provider (openssl).
>>
>
> Even better would be splitting arguments up. There's not much point to
> multi-valued arguments, they're just harder to parse/memorize.
> If you need a common constructor, use a configuration object instead of a
> made-up string format.
>
> Apart from that, thumbs up on this!
>
>
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Hi Peter,

It's not really a "made-up string format", in the sense that it has a
precedent (PDO).

Hopefully my response to Lauri makes this design decision seem more reasona=
ble.

Regards,

Scott Arciszewski
Chief Development Officer
Paragon Initiative Enterprises <https://paragonie.com>