What Category for the Message Hashing/HMAC digest package?
| From: | Jesus M. Castagnetto | Date: | Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:09:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | What Category for the Message Hashing/HMAC digest package? | ||
| Groups: | php.pear.dev | ||
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I was about to release the 'Message' package, but I am not sure there is an
appropriate category in the PEAR package browser. 'Authentication' might be OK,
but that is one of the uses of the Hashing and HMAC digests. They can also be
used for data (integrity) validation.
'Encryption' is not a good one either as the classes in question use the
one-way hashing functions available from mhash. 'Security' could be a good one,
because the reason to use hashes and hmacs is to make more secure web
applications.
Any ideas, comments, rants?
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