Re: New Module

I agree, so I think this module could be packaged with a default mycrypt library to make this easier Any idea? Keyser Soz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Tate" <jtate@mi-corporation.com> To: "Keyser Soze" <keysers@terra.com.br>; "Brad Fisher" <brad@info-link.net>; <dark_panda@hushmail.com> Cc: <php-dev@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:15 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] New Module > What Brad is suggesting doesn't take away from your module, just makes it > easier to use from php land. No need to write your own crypt functions in > C, just write them in PHP and use them as callbacks. Of course leaving that > option for advanced users is a good idea. I personally don't think that I > would be writing custom crypt functions, so I would like a crypto++ plugin > to do that for me. > > Joseph > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Keyser Soze [mailto:keysers@terra.com.br] > > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 1:03 PM > > To: Brad Fisher; dark_panda@hushmail.com > > Cc: php-dev@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New Module > > > > > > but that's what my module is meant for > > > > Keyser Soze > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brad Fisher" <brad@info-link.net> > > To: <dark_panda@hushmail.com> > > Cc: <php-dev@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:03 PM > > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New Module > > > > > > > > > > J Smith wrote: > > > > > > > I hesitate to mention this because I don't want to get stuck > > in a corner > > > > here, but I've been working on and off on a PHP encryption > > extension for > > > > precisely the reasons you mention. I'm using Crypto++, a public ... > > > > > > This sounds to me like one of the better ways to do it. Just have an > > extension > > > that does two-way encryption, and supports several different algorithms. > > For > > > those people who whant to define their own algorithms, why not > > have a way > > to > > > register a new crypt/decrypt callback methods either developed in PHP or > > > loadable module? Something like: > > > > > > bool crypto_register_algorithm(string name, function &crypt, function > > > &decrypt) > > > > > > Then crypt and decrypt could have function headers similar to (perhaps > > this is > > > oversimplified): > > > > > > string crypt(string data, mixed key) > > > > > > I don't think the module would need to write configuration files, etc. > > That > > > could be handled with PHP by the developer, or by another PHP > > > extension/function which can write such files. > > > > > > Just babbling, > > > -Brad > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP Development Mailing List > > > <http://www.php.net/> > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >