Re: [PEAR-QA] Crypt_RSA

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Daniel O'Connor
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:40 PM, Daniel O'Connor <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:41 AM, John McKinzey <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>

Sorry for not replying to the last email - I got it but it, I guess,
got lost in a deluge of other email.

Anyway, my Crypt_RSA was developed from the ground up, completely
independent of the one in PEAR.

I do plan on creating a PEAR channel for the 0.2.1 release of
phpseclib, which will hopefully happen later this month.  I'll send an
email here when that's done?