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Re: proposal of new packages: libmhash and libmcrypt


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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

| On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:34:13AM +0200, Stefan Hetzl wrote:
|
|> I would like to create (and maintain) cygwin packages for libmhash
|>  (http://mhash.sourceforge.net/) and libmcrypt
|> (http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/). Following the instructions in the
|> Cygwin Package Contributor's Guide I post here first to ask if
|> these two packages would be accepted.

Both has my vote (you know.. I'm a crypto-freak 0=) ).

| Isn't that covered by the OpenSSL crypto lib?  Do we need two crypto
| libs? I'm not exactly against inclusion, just curious what the
| advantage is.

One possible use is that both of them are available as PHP extensions
and Cygwin's PHP port could well use them.

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