Re: assymetric encryption functions based on OpenSSL

In my opinion, the whole issue of where we actually get the info from should probably be left out and we should pass strings. Read the certificate into a string before that. In general (and this isn't always true) the less PHP functions mess with PHP's fopen-wrappers the better. Also making it use strings is nice because of databases and other ways of passing data. I would not want the functions behavior to change according to if it is sent a string or an fp. Also the x509 stuff can probably be hidden from the end user inside the other functions. Andi At 02:20 PM 11/13/00 -0600, Andrei Zmievski wrote:

On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Stig Venaas wrote: The advantage of the current way is that you can do: $fp = fopen("http://www.www.ww/cert.pem"); $x509 = openssl_read_x509($fp); How about both? I can check whether it's a string or a resource. Sorry, but how is it better than: $x509 = openssl_read_x509("http://www.www.ww/cert.pem"); -Andrei Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you can sell him fishing equipment.

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