>>>>> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000 15:38:17 -0500 (EST), Frey Kuo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Name: Frey Kuo
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Home Page: None at the moment
> User ID: FKUO
> Description of contribution:
> I will be contributing a perl interface to the commonly used crypto
> library MCRYPT. MCrypt is commonly built as a module in PHP and has
> support for the following crypto algorithms:
> BLOWFISH, TWOFISH, DES, TripleDES, 3-WAY, SAFER-sk64, SAFER-sk128,
> SAFER+, LOKI97, GOST, RC2, RC6, MARS, IDEA, RIJNDAEL-128 (AES),
> RIJNDAEL-192, RIJNDAEL-256, SERPENT, CAST-128 (known as CAST5),
> CAST-256, ARCFOUR and WAKE. Block algorithms can be used in: CBC,
> ECB, CFB and OFB (8 bit and n bit, where n is the size of the
> algorithm's block length).
> I have built XS interfaces to mcrypt's C API. It is lightning fast,
> easy to use, and has a more consistent interface than the Crypt
> libraries available via CPAN.
> I believe this library is extremely useful and will be in high
> demand upon release.
Sounds great, the Crypt modules on CPAN definitely miss a common
consistent interface. How are you going to name this?
Crypt::Mcrypt would fit well, I'd say.
Thanks & Regards,
--
andreas
