PHP Cryptography Libraries That Don't Suck Posted by paragon_init on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @02:49PM from the paragonie.com dept. https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/11/choosing-right-cryptography-library-for-your-php-project-guide#resubmit ( 2 comments | 2 points | on HN )
This isn't a bad thing: https://paragonie.com/security
The intersection between PHP developers, cryptographers, and software security experts is very minimal. Thus, despite PHP powering over 80% of the Internet, the truly reliable cryptography libraries written in PHP are exceedingly rare.