Posted by gosha bine on 09/07/07 15:47

On 07.09.2007 17:39 howa wrote:
> php mcrypt is perhaps the most difficult to use modules, e.g.
>
>
> $key = "this is a secret key";
> $input = "Let us meet at 9 o'clock at the secret place.";
>
> $td = mcrypt_module_open('tripledes', '', 'ecb', '');
> $iv = mcrypt_create_iv (mcrypt_enc_get_iv_size($td), MCRYPT_RAND);
> mcrypt_generic_init($td, $key, $iv);
> $encrypted_data = mcrypt_generic($td, $input);
> mcrypt_generic_deinit($td);
> mcrypt_module_close($td);
>
>
> broken into too many steps which is error prone...
>

Nothing stops you from writing a nice, concise, well documented object
oriented frontend for it. ;))



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