Re: Re: PHP 5.1.0 - sha256() and sha256_file() support

Sara Golemon wrote: > I've had implementations of sha256,384, and 512 lying about for months now > (possibly over a year), but was told they didn't have a place in core since > mhash provided the functionality (A statement I recall agreeing with at the > time fwiw). What changed? Didn't you hear md5/sha1 are cracked in seconds by evil governments and corporations, put on your tin foil hat TODAY! I think the issue is that mhash is a relatively rare extension due to a dependency on a library that is rarely available. I think that perhaps for 6.0 we need to look into a php extension that could provide some commonly used hashes without any decencies. Ilia