Re: Crypt_RSA

phpseclib should now be installable via a PEAR channel: http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/ On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor@gmail.com> wrote: > Awesome :) > > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Jim Wigginton <terrafrost@php.net> wrote: > >> 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? >> >