Re: Encryption Routines and PHP 5.1+

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Matthew Charles Kavanagh wrote: > The issue in my mind is one of portability. It would be nice, as a > developer working in PHP, to be able to rely on functionality like > encryption (and other unrelated goodies) being available on Joe User's > $5/month webhost who don't go around installing fancy packages. We know. However, right now encryption does rise to that level for us. First, this attitude isn't scalable. (i.e. should PHP bundle everything? libxml2? MySQL? where is the line?) Second, the whole point of libaries is that you shouldn't need to bundle them with every package. We would prefer education instead of working around the problem. Third, there are all sorts of nasty export restrictions in some countries w/r/t crypto and I don't want to get involved with that. We've hashed this type of issue over many times. I can assure you, we won't bundle crypt at this time. It's not worth debating, really. Please don't continue asking as it will only annoy people. Honestly. :) -adam -- adam@trachtenberg.com | http://www.trachtenberg.com author of o'reilly's "upgrading to php 5" and "php cookbook" avoid the holiday rush, buy your copies today!