Re: What Category for the Message Hashing/HMAC digest package?

> 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. +1 for Encryption, or even better, renaming that category to Cryptography which I feel fits hashing *ever so slightly* better. Average Joe Public tends not to differentiate between hashing/encyption. -- Richard Heyes V-webmail - http://www.v-webmail.co.uk