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

davisneilp@mindspring.com wrote: >It's a wrapper that simplifies implementing encryption into your application. > > hmmm. In that case it's a little bit of a limited interest. Either you provide a wrapper for all the encryptions and not only AES, or you'd have to add a PHP-only AES encryption. -Philippe >-----Original Message----- > > >>From: Philippe Jausions <Philippe.Jausions@11abacus.com> >>Sent: May 24, 2006 5:59 PM >>To: davisneilp@mindspring.com >>Cc: pear-dev@lists.php.net >>Subject: 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 >>