Re: [PECL-DEV] New xpass extension - proposal

On 27.08.2024 at 11:42, Remi Collet wrote:

> I was asked to be able to use the same password
> algo than linux distribution for its user database
>
> Old distro use sha512 ($6$...)
> New distro use yescrypt ($y$...)
>
> So I choose to implement this using the
> features from libxcrypt as an extension
>
> This is only for Linux
>
> This is not designed to improve security
> but for compatibility reasons.
>
> Sources:
>   https://github.com/remicollet/php-xpass
>
>
> If no objection, and if good feedback from
> the requester of this feature, I plan to
> add this extension to pecl

I don't see any reason not to publish this on PECL.

Christoph