Re: security paranoia

Thanks Mike. I installed PHP from pre-compiled binary. I have never used a compiler. I do have cygwin on my machine...just don't know how to compile. If there is a step-by-step tutorial on how to do it (and I do mean STEP-BY-STEP), I would give it a try and use php source. Thanks for the reply! ----- Original Message ----- From: "mos" <mos99@fastmail.fm> To: "MikeParton" <mike.parton@nimblesdg.com> Cc: <mysql@lists.mysql.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:22 AM Subject: Re: security paranoia > Mike, > At 05:05 PM 6/11/2002, you wrote: > >Alternatively (and I am posting this to the php lists), anyone know where, > >or if, I can get pre-compiled libmcrypt library for php 4.2.1? > > I looked around a few months back and mcrypt is only available as source. I > think it is distributed this way to prevent someone from putting in a > backdoor to one or all of the algorithms and then concealing it in a > compiled library. Also the library would be outdated as soon as a new > version of PHP is released so people would have to keep recompiling the > libraries and also keep around an archive of the old libraries which is > probably too much work. You need to recompile PHP in order to use mcrypt. :( > > Mike > >