Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove mycrypt. Vote ends Monday

2015-02-09 Thread Tom Worster
On 2/8/15, 6:23 PM, "Stanislav Malyshev" wrote: >The better alternative you proposing is having no mcrypt extension at >all in core. Which means the users have three choices: > >1. Rewrite all their code to a different API (with accompanying costs in >development, QA, stability, maintenance of co

Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove mycrypt. Vote ends Monday

2015-02-08 Thread Stanislav Malyshev
Hi! > On 2/8/15, 11:38 AM, "Derick Rethans" wrote: >> >> Btw, I only voted no because I don't think we should just remove it. A >> reimplementation of its APIs on top of eg. Open SSL makes sense. And that >> I'd vote yes for. > > This idea makes me nervous. It doesn't sound at all easy and will

Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove mycrypt. Vote ends Monday

2015-02-08 Thread Tom Worster
Hi Derick, On 2/8/15, 11:38 AM, "Derick Rethans" wrote: > >Btw, I only voted no because I don't think we should just remove it. A >reimplementation of its APIs on top of eg. Open SSL makes sense. And that >I'd vote yes for. This idea makes me nervous. It doesn't sound at all easy and will take

Re: [PHP-DEV] Remove mycrypt. Vote ends Monday

2015-02-08 Thread Derick Rethans
Tom Worster schreef op 8 februari 2015 15:38:15 GMT+00:00: >mycrypt was abandoned by its developers in 2007. The package in Debian >is >from 2009. It has been removed from RHEL. > >This is already unacceptable. But it would be an insult to the idea of >"security" to include mcrypt in PHP 7. > >The