Re: Crypt_RSA

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com>wrote: > > > 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 > :) > Let's try this email address. psst, Jim; Does your Crypt_RSA have any common heritage with the PEAR version? Feel like making http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/ installable via a pear channel? (something like http://www.pirum-project.org/ makes it pretty simple these days)? If so, I'm more than happy to point users of PEAR's Crypt_RSA over to phpseclib.