Re: Crypt_RSA

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > Sorry for not replying to the last email - I got it but it, I guess, got lost in a deluge of other email. Anyway, my Crypt_RSA was developed from the ground up, completely independent of the one in PEAR. I do plan on creating a PEAR channel for the 0.2.1 release of phpseclib, which will hopefully happen later this month. I'll send an email here when that's done?