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scotthummel's avatar

Mcrypt

I'm looking at the specs for the new version of Laravel and I noticed it does not mentioned that mcrypt is required anymore. It looks like it uses OpenSSL instead. Is that correct? Here is what I am looking at.

http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/encryption

I know it seems pretty clear, but I want to be sure before I buy hosting if we can't use Forge.

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jekinney's avatar
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Server requirements do not state that anymore.

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gpspake's avatar

I'm a little confused about this too. I've installed Laravel with composer on a box with the new requirements and I'm still getting that 'Mcrypt extension required' message.

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