Re: Idea for an easy to use encryption library, as well as a formlibrary

neil davis wrote: > Hello all, > I have a couple of libraries I've built that I'd like to see not go to > waste. > > Encryption: > I have an encryption library that is currently functional for AES. It > supports building initialization vectors, hashes using mt_rand and all > other functionality needed for encrypting and decrypting data using > Rijndael. I would like to add this to pear, and over time support more > than AES. > > As a user, I found the existing PHP functions to be a little complicated > to understand, even for someone who's done this before in another > language. This library makes it simple, without needing to understand > how encryption works. I wrote it so I wouldn't need to reinvent the > wheel if I need to do this again a year from now for a different > project. > <snip> Is it a PHP-only implementation or a wrapper around MCrypt? I've just recently worked on Crypt_Blowfish to add support for MCrypt. Obviously a PHP-only code will be slower than C-compiled library, so it makes sense to use MCrypt whenever possible. It would also be best to align your API to one of the existing Crypt package. > Both of these will need to be reformatted by me and inline comments > added so it will take some time to put them into the PEAR mold, but I > think they'd be worthy additions to the PEAR collection of open source > libraries. > > My motivation is that the project was cancelled, but the libraries are > very cool. I'd hate to see either of these collecting dust and would > like to give them to PEAR and participate in maintaining them. -Philippe