[Phpmyadmin-devel] about Blowfish in PHP

[Marc Delisle]

Michal Čihař a écrit :
> Hi
> 
> Dne Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:04:47 -0400
> Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> napsal(a):
> 
>> This is to answer your question in the git comment about updating 
>> Blowfish library.
>>
>> Indeed it would be a good idea to switch to PEAR package Crypt_Blowfish. 
> 
> What slightly frightens me here is last stable release from 2005-05-30
> (and beta from 2008-08-30).

Ok, in this case let's not switch :)

> 
>> By the way, did you test the new version from Horde?
> 
> Yes, anyway there are no real functional changes.
> 
>> I am curious about the response time, because we found in the past that 
>> running Blowfish encryption in PHP (for those who don't have the mcrypt 
>> PHP extension) added many seconds of delay *for each click in phpMyAdmin*.
> 
> I did not notice any slowdown on my system (Intel Core Duo
> E8200  @ 2.66GHz). 
> 
> I've looked deeper at it now and it seems to add around 60ms to each
> request.

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Marc Delisle
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