cakephp/cakephp — pull request #5496 by markstory (2014-12-26 03:06:23+00:00)
Title: Remove hard dependency on mcrypt

From #5440 a few key distros (redhat) will be dropping mcrypt support. We can and should switch to openssl earlier. openssl is more widely maintained and easier to use.

I've left the default to be mcrypt mostly out of backwards compatibility issues. Because our earlier implementation of `encrypt()` did not use PKCS#7 the data encrypted by it cannot be decrypted with openssl. For people with both extensions, it would be best if their code didn't break.