[PHP-DEV] [RFC] deprecate md5_file and sha1_file

2020-02-10 Thread Tom Van Looy via internals
Hi While in some environments the use of MD5 and SHA1 are still acceptable for some use cases like file integrity verification etc. the use of these algorithms should be discouraged and not be your choice when developing new applications. I suggest to deprecated the functions md5_file() and sha1_

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] deprecate md5_file and sha1_file

2020-02-10 Thread Tom Van Looy via internals
5 and SHA1 might not be suitable for modern > cryptographic operations, these functions might be needed for legacy > situations -- e.g., munging through old data. > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 1:50 PM Tom Van Looy via internals < > internals@lists.php.net> wrote: > >> Hi

Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [RFC] deprecate md5_file and sha1_file

2020-02-10 Thread Tom Van Looy via internals
On Mon, 10 Feb 2020, 23:36 Mark Randall, wrote: > On 10/02/2020 21:49, Tom Van Looy via internals wrote: > > I suggest to deprecated the functions md5_file() and sha1_file(). This > will > > make people think about upgrading to a better alternative. > > It won't. >

Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] deprecate md5_file and sha1_file

2020-02-10 Thread Tom Van Looy via internals
On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, 06:59 Stanislav Malyshev, wrote: > Hi! > > > I suggest to deprecated the functions md5_file() and sha1_file(). This > will > > Not sure what's the point of it. SHA1 and MD5 didn't change. The > recommendations for their usage has changed, but we generally don't use > deprecat

[PHP-DEV] Infrastructure help

2021-05-14 Thread Tom Van Looy via internals
Hi internals! If you can use some extra hands to work on PHP's infrastructure (maintenance, migrations, monitoring, ...) I would like to offer my help. I'm a sysadmin in my day job so this should be stuff that is close to my comfort zone. Who should I talk to or what platforms should I join? I