> On 11 Dec 2014, at 06:54, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:31 AM, Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me> wrote: >> >> It’s my understanding that ext/mcrypt is quite widely used. Would it not be >> possible to update the lib to use OpenSSL or something on the backend, so >> existing applications would not need changing? > > I suppose you mean to replace the functions implementation to use > openssl + some custom codes? As maintaining our own library is not > going to be a good idea :)
Yes. Essentially it would be a polyfill that uses a crypto library that's actually maintained. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
