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    "relId": "2007/02/18/typekey-and-big-number-math-yay-wez",
    "title": "TypeKey and Big-Number Math: Yay Wez!",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "PHP",
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    "created": "2007-02-18 17:42:39 UTC",
    "updated": [
        "2007-02-18 17:42:39 UTC"
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    "html": "<p>Wez Furlong gives us <a href=\"http://netevil.org/node.php?nid=949\">good news</a> about implementing the math functions needed to support TypeKey and OpenID more directly within PHP.</p>\n<p><a href=\"http://solarphp.com\">Solar</a> users have had integrated TypeKey support via <a href=\"http://solarphp.com/trac/browser/trunk/Solar/Auth/Adapter/Typekey.php\"><code>Solar_Auth_Adapter_Typekey</code></a> for almost 6 months now.  This is<br>\nin addition to all our other auth adapters (SQL database, LDAP, .htpasswd, even .ini file).</p>\n<p>The internals of our TypeKey adapter use big-number math functions implemented in userland by Daiji Hirata.  These are very useful and serve a purpose unfulfilled by anything else in PHP, but simply cannot compare in speed or simplicity to the big-number functions presented by Wez.</p>\n<p>I for one welcome our new big-number overlord, and I hope it arrives sooner rather than later.  It will make our TypeKey adapter that much faster, and open the way for an easier-to-implement OpenID adapter for Solar.</p>\n"
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