PHP 7.2.0 Released

Re:PHP 7.2.0 Released by weberc2 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @11:41AM (#15817122)

I'm surprised PHP hasn't had this for a while. Isn't PHP nearly 20 years old? Is it common for web languages to grow so old before they get crypto in the standard library?

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Re:PHP 7.2.0 Released by Narutu on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:24PM (#15818689)

You are right, of course, but nonetheless this is a significant step forward for the language (and the ecosystem as a whole).

I do hope that - just like yourself, I am sure - the next significant step is more organically and proactively developed, and not treated (at least in the wider communtity's eyes) as a belated addition to a bewildered leviathan.

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Re:PHP 7.2.0 Released by Can_Not on Thursday November 30, 2017 @03:07PM (#15819035)

> PHP 7.2: The First Programming Language to Add Modern Cryptography to its Standard Library

https://dev.to/paragonie/php-72-the-first-programming-langua...

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Re:PHP 7.2.0 Released by weberc2 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:20PM (#15820575)

Ok, but that's different from including crypto at all. I'm surprised Go uses those algorithms in its standard library TLS stack, but they're not made available as part of the standard crypto packages...

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Re:PHP 7.2.0 Released by Can_Not on Thursday November 30, 2017 @06:38PM (#15820677)

OpenSSL and Mcrypt have been available for the longest time, I don't know if that counts if we word-lawyer "Standard Library" but it definitely felt like that way.

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