[dev] Horde_Cipher et al;

[Davey]

Mike Cochrane wrote:

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>>To that end, I have been pointed to [2] and was wondering a few things,
>>
>>1) Are they fast enough to actually use? Obviously I don't expect them
>>to be as fast as the mcrypt library
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>The blowfish library has been heavily optimized and is used in Horde where
>mcrypt is not available. It's about as quick as i could get it. The other
>libraries have a lot of room for improvement, in many cases they bit operations
>are done by converting to binary strings manipulating and then converting back
>to decimals. Anyone with some bit wise experience should be able to deal to
>them.
>
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>
>>2) Is anyone who actually knows the code, willing to PEARize them? I
>>think they would need to be completely seperate entitys
>>so no more central Horde_Cipher class which is extended by the cipher
>>driver... however, personally I like this way, a unified API
>>where possible is always good!
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>Um, not quite sure what you're after. The classes are completely independant of
>horde. There is allready and package.xml file there (called cipher.xml) for the
>horde_cipher class. It can be installed like any other pear package and has no
>dependancies.
>
>I have a test page here:
>http://www.graftonhall.co.nz/packages/
>That has all the horde packages generated every 24 hours. The cipher one is
>there if you want to play with it. It does need some documation or examples at
>least, but otherwise could be released.
>
>- Mike :-)
>
Thanks for the link, I already checked out the horde cvs module and make 
the package myself.

Really, what I want is for this package to be in the PEAR repository for 
ease of install... AFAICT apart from your site theres no
place to get the package, and I'd rather have it be in the PEAR release 
system etc...

- Davey

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