Posted by Greg Donald on 10/01/18 11:05

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:51:31 -0500, Jason Barnett
<jason.barnett@telesuite.com> wrote:
> No offense intended to you sir... but why do you use a static key in
> this way instead of using mcrypt? Please forgive my naivete regarding
> encryption.

Because not everyone's PHP is built --with-mcrypt, and not everyone
can control how their PHP is built. Think 'many different clients on
many different web hosts'.

You think I would say to a client that I can't build them a PHP cart
because their PHP doesn't have mcrypt support? Umm.. no.


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Greg Donald
Zend Certified Engineer
http://destiney.com/

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