Re: mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 07:29:47 -0700 Hanno Böck wrote: > > Symmetric cryptography is quite conservative and it took years and > > even decades for algorithms and their implementations to become > > trusted, so there is nothing wrong in using good old verified > > software. > > When it comes to c

Re: mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 13:05:56 -0500 Marty E. Plummer wrote: [...] > It seems that every last person commenting on this is talking mcrypt, > not mhash, which is what I mentioned in the first place. As far as I can > tell, these are entirely differnt projects which just happen to have a > similar name.

Re: mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Marty E. Plummer
On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 11:43:28AM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:59:47 +0200 Hanno Böck wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:50:50 -0500 > > "Marty E. Plummer" wrote: > > > > > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to > > > an autotools based bui

Re: mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Thomas Deutschmann
On 2018-08-04 16:29, Hanno Böck wrote: >> Do you have any evidence that mcrypt should not be used? > Well, PHP was as far as I'm aware its main user and PHP has declared > mcrypt support to be deprecated a while ago. In all fairness: Yes, PHP project has removed ext/mcrypt from core, but they onl

Re: mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Hanno Böck
Hi, On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 11:43:28 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Do you have any evidence that mcrypt should not be used? Well, PHP was as far as I'm aware its main user and PHP has declared mcrypt support to be deprecated a while ago. > Symmetric cryptography is quite conservative and it took

mcrypt status (Re: [gentoo-dev] Idea for a new project: gentoo-libs)

2018-08-04 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 07:59:47 +0200 Hanno Böck wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:50:50 -0500 > "Marty E. Plummer" wrote: > > > So, as you may be aware I've been doing some work on moving bzip2 to > > an autotools based build. Recently I've ran into app-crypt/mhash, > > which is in a semi-abandoned s