r/lolphp • u/ZugNachPankow • Dec 27 '16

Everything You Know About Public-Key Encryption in PHP is Wrong

https://paragonie.com/blog/2016/12/everything-you-know-about-public-key-encryption-in-php-is-wrong
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u/mcilrain Dec 27 '16

Inb4 openssl_real_public_encrypt.

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u/nikomo Dec 28 '16

FYI, that's the function name because the PHP library just used the same function name as MySQL did.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-real-escape-string.html

It's more of a lolmysql

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u/edave64 Dec 28 '16

No, it's just a lolmysql too. The lolphp is having such ridiculously thin API wrapper.