Just thought I'd give an update about the current status of the Crypto++ extension for PHP I've been working on the past month or two, called simply cryptopp.
The extension is coming along rather nicely and is stablizing towards a solid release. I'd still consider the current releases of beta quality and not to be trusted with 100% confidence, although I have not had a problem yet. (As more users try out the extension, I'll get a better idea of how well it's working, but I need feedback, which sadly has been slow-coming.) The good stuff: - Works on a bunch of platforms, including both UNIX platforms (Solaris 8 and linux tested; others should work if gcc/g++ work) and Windows platforms (Windows 2000 with VC++ 6 tested). Hopefully this will be of use to Windows PHP users, as I don't believe the win32 port of the libmcrypt libraries are being maintained anymore. - The extension implements 32 cryptographic ciphers (27 block ciphers, 5 stream ciphers), 14 cryptographic hashes and two checksum hashes. (CRC32 is included for completeness, even though there is already a CRC32 function in PHP.) - There is some compatibility with the mcrypt and mhash extensions. I haven't tested everything, but there are at least a few algorithms common to each that can produce compatible ciphertext. - There's a set of C bindings to the extension that you can use in other extensions. I guess. I had originally used the C bindings in the extension itself until I wised up. I left them there for others to use if they really want to. (The extension is written in C++, so the C bindings were originally to make using the C++ classes from PHP's C code easier.) The bad: - produces a big-ass executable when statically linked with PHP. My current Apache executable went from 3.3 MB or so to 5.3 MB after enabling the extension. VC++ 6 produces a DLL of 430 KB or so. This is 'cause unlike mcrypt and mhash there's no dynamic loading of ciphers or hashes. (Yet -- I may work on this later.) - there's no way to pick and choose which ciphers or hashes you'd like to compile in with the extension -- it's all or nothing. I'm also planning on working on this later. The latest version of the extension is 0.0.5. There were a few changes from the original version, 0.0.1, which are listed in the docs. To play around with the extension, head to http://www.tutorbuddy.com/software/. (Mirrored at http://209.202.82.229/software/.) J -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
