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

>Either you provide a wrapper for all the encryptions and not only AES, That's the plan as outlined in my original note. I'll hang tight, start my own site, which I've been meaning to do anyway, and bring it to PEAR when it's fully mature, I have a user base, and it's been vetted fully by the community. Thank you for your responses! I have a much better understanding of what PEAR developers are looking for now. -Neil -----Original Message----- >From: Philippe Jausions <Philippe.Jausions@11abacus.com> >Sent: May 26, 2006 10:14 AM >To: davisneilp@mindspring.com >Cc: pear-dev@lists.php.net >Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] 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 >>> >