Re: Crypt_RSA
| From: | Daniel O'Connor | Date: | Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:10:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Crypt_RSA | ||
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:41 AM, John McKinzey <john.mckinzey@gmail.com>wrote:
> My thoughts: PEAR should adopt the Crypt_RSA class at
> phpseclib.sourceforge.net as Crypt_RSA2. If "[you] don't have time to
> [add new features] and [you] don't know RSA well enough" then your
> ability to fix all but the most superficial of bugs is suspect.
> Besides, the phpseclib Crypt_RSA package fulfills several open feature
> requests for the PEAR package that, by your admission, you'd be
> unwilling and unable to do.
>
Ah, perhaps; but it's LGPL'd; and the patches / changes which appear to have
been applied to it have never been pushed back upstream afaict - ie: the
maintainer hasn't bugged us with.. .bugs :)
Seems odd, since he's a pear dev (http://pear.php.net/user/terrafrost)
*nudge terrafrost, nudge*
Anyway, there's nothing to stop both of them becoming devs on the package :)