Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] Re: new crypt implementation, latest DES version used, blowfish support

Hi Pierre,

> Alexander Peslyak (Solar designer), the author of the Blowfish
> implementation and known security expert, was kind enough to review my
> code and point me to a better implementation of the DES (his revision
> of the FreeSec code). It does not use any locking mechanism (being
> fully reentrant), provides extended DES support (not only standard)
> and is under BSD license (always preferable than the lgpl one we used
> until now).

Excuse me displaying my ignorance (this really isn't my area) - Alexander's 
code is already in the PHP core. Is there some reason for a Windows-specific 
crypt implementation? It looks to me like MD5 and standard DES are covered 
twice over in your current patch and the BLOWFISH check could be shared 
x-platform, but I could be missing something?

Thanks,

- Steph