If you like, make your code available under the GPL, and maybe one of us
could help get the MD5 code working. I would give it a try myself.
Andy Mendelsohn
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Brad Murray wrote:
> Bhavin Turakhia wrote:
> >
> > hi guys,
> >
> > we just started rewriting the opensrs.pl in PHP so that way we can do all
> > our coding in PHP. Since we are better at that. We are facing
>
> I recently finished doing that, everything except for the encryption,
> which I'm having problems getting to work.. I've replicated the perl
> method of doing it using MCRYPT, and have been waiting for quite a while
> to get a response back from tucows about what might be wrong.
>
>
> followiung
> > problems - if anyone can help us please do - if anyone has previously
> > already done this or wants to do it jointly please write to me
> >
> > 1) is there any chance of shifting to SSL or SSH in the near future since
> > the current MD5 encrpt is possible in PHP but i cant see anyway to do SSL or
> > SSH
>
> I also wish they would've just used a SSL or SSH connection, so I
> could've just setup a secure socket to tunnel to their machine. I had
> been told before that they would be using SSL, so I had finished coding
> to the point that my client was fully functional, and I created an SSL
> tunnel on our network to their server when they changed the SRS
> protocol, and implemented the encryption system they use now.
>
> >
> > 2) is there any documentation for emulting the functions of the opensrs.pl.
> > currently we are going through it line by line and duplicating each function
> > to ensure that whatever is output remains same in both the programs - but it
> > wouyld be better if there was some documentation
> >
>
> No docs that I've found. I just port sniffed the connections to figure
> out the protocol... didn't even reference the perl until I reached the
> point of doing encryption.
>
> > 3) our development is taking place on a windows machine. i am not being able
> > to find the dll files for the MD5 encryption the manual for PHP gives only
> > the unix versions i need the windows dlls for the same.....
> >
>
> I'm not aware that such a thing exists. I would recommend doing
> EVERYTHING on a UNIX box for a project like this... it just makes more
> sense.
>
> > please help if anyone is following the same route. if anyone has any counter
> > suggestions as to why we should not be doing this exercise please comment
> >
>
> Again, I recommend doing it all on a UNIX box... worst case senario, you
> could probably get a cheap UNIX hosting account and do the development
> from their... just check what libs, etc that the host supports.
>
> If ya have any major questions, let me know. I'm not at liberty to hand
> over code or anything (unless you had something big to offer in return),
> but I could probably help answer some questions if ya run into any major
> stumbling blocks.
>
> Brad Murray
> Graphic Technologies
>
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