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Consider dropping mcrypt dependency

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Consider dropping mcrypt dependency

Feature request from kabel, posted on GitHub Jul 10, 2015

The mcrypt php extension and the underlying libmcrypt are unmaintained and there is a strong effort to remove them from the PHP core. [1] [2]

This would be a good opportunity to port any password or data encryption to the better maintained openssl or password extensions.

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Status changed to: Investigating
 
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Comment from pronto2000, posted on GitHub Jul 10, 2015

Pretty much every payment method there uses Mcrypt. I don't think there's a way to get rid of it that easily.

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Comment from kabel, posted on GitHub Jul 10, 2015

I'm fairly certain there isn't anything the Magento app is doing with mcrypt that couldn't be trivially ported to openssl.

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Comment from piotrekkaminski, posted on GitHub Jul 10, 2015

We are aware of that, internal ticket MAGETWO-39838. As this is not scheduled yet, if someone wants to contribute the change as a pull request, we would appreciate that.

Do you have any recommendation which library should be used instead? If this is not PHP core functionality, it should be:

  • actively supported and stable
  • best if compatible/endorsed by Zend Framework/Symfony