Re: [PEAR-QA] Crypt_RSA

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Daniel O'Connor
<[email protected]>wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:41 AM, John McKinzey <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> My thoughts: PEAR should adopt the Crypt_RSA class at
>> phpseclib.sourceforge.net as Crypt_RSA2.  If "[you] don't have time to
>> [add new features] and [you] don't know RSA well enough" then your
>> ability to fix all but the most superficial of bugs is suspect.
>> Besides, the phpseclib Crypt_RSA package fulfills several open feature
>> requests for the PEAR package that, by your admission, you'd be
>> unwilling and unable to do.
>>
>
> Ah, perhaps; but it's LGPL'd; and the patches / changes which appear to
> have been applied to it have never been pushed back upstream afaict - ie:
> the maintainer hasn't bugged us with.. .bugs :)
>
> Seems odd, since he's a pear dev (http://pear.php.net/user/terrafrost)
>
> *nudge terrafrost, nudge*
>
> Anyway, there's nothing to stop both of them becoming devs on the package
> :)
>

Let's try this email address.

psst, Jim; Does your Crypt_RSA have any common heritage with the PEAR
version?

Feel like making http://phpseclib.sourceforge.net/ installable via a pear
channel? (something like http://www.pirum-project.org/ makes it pretty
simple these days)?
If so, I'm more than happy to point users of PEAR's Crypt_RSA over to
phpseclib.