I've finally gotten the Crypto++ extension I've been working on up to the point where I think a release is warranted. At least, an alpha release.
The Crypto++ extension provides a number of cryptographic algorithms, including some 27 block cipher algorithms and 13 hash algorithms. At this point, you can pretty easily encrypt and decrypt text using a variety of block cipher modes along with a bunch of other options, as well as hash and validate hashed text. I'm considering this alpha-quality right now, as I'm the only one who's tested it, and I'd like some others to start looking at it and telling me what they think. It's coded mostly in C++ with some C to talk to PHP. It's not an overly complex extension, but it works pretty well. Out of 360-some tests (taken from the Crypto++ validation suite), only 8 fail, and I already know why. (Not sure if I'm going to bother fixing it, though.) Anyways, to try out the extension, head to http://209.202.82.229/software. To view the extension's manual, head to http://209.202.82.229/software/cryptopp/. To download the extension directly, try http://209.202.82.229/software/download.php/cryptopp-php-0.0.1.tar.gz. So far, I've only tested the extension on Linux (2.4.9 kernel using gcc/g++ 2.96 and on Solaris 8 using gcc/g++ 2.95). It should work on Windows, but I haven't tested it yet. (If anybody gets it working on win32, please let me know.) J p.s. Derick -- what's the word on that abstracted crypto API you mentioned a while back? I'm still interested. -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
