Re: Encryption Routines and PHP 5.1+

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Mark Evans wrote: > Since the mcrypt library is released under the GPL and php under the > php 3.0 licence I guess the option to integrate the solutions isnt > available so the other option would be for php to include their own > encryption routines. libmcrypt is LGPL, not GPL - which allows it to bundled it with PHP. > Is this planned or is this even an option? This is definitely not planned - we rather not bundle any library, and definitely not an LGPL library. Reinventing the wheel by providing encryption routines in PHP does not make sense really. PHP is meant to be a glue to provide access to libraries, and not meant to be reimplementing them. regards, Derick -- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl | http://ez.no | http://xdebug.org