The following is a great example of feedback that should be posted as a comment 
on the proposal itself. Please remember that proposal announcements to the list 
are only meant to get you over to the proposal itself so you can start 
commenting there. :)

,Wil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael B Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 2:15 PM
> To: Pádraic Brady
> Cc: Zend Framework General
> Subject: Re: [fw-general] Zend_Crypt_Rsa Proposed: Community comment
> welcome
> 
> On 6/12/08, Pádraic Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I have finished my proposal for a Zend_Crypt_Rsa component, which
> will come
> > in handy for a few uses, not least of which OAuth.
> >
> > http://framework.zend.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=3866770
> >
> > Comments from the community is more than welcome. As it stands the
> component
> > is quite a neat OO wrapper around existing ext/openssl functionality.
> 
> The naming of this component is wrong. It should be
> Zend_Pki_Certificate or Zend_Pki_Key or some such. The word "Crypt"
> should be reserved for a generic crypto class and "Rsa" is just one
> implementation of a symmetric algorithm.
> 
> Also as long as I'm on a rampage, I will say I'm not a big fan of OO
> wrappers for the sake of OOP as if it is somehow inherently superior
> to just using an existing set of functions. What functional benefit
> does this API have over the builtin openssl API?
> 
> Mike
> 
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