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From: Matthew Carter <m@ahungry.com>
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Subject: Re: getting started with encryption
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 16:36:49 -0400
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bill <william@TechServSys.com> writes:

> It has been decided that encrypting patient notes would be a good
> idea.  I anticipated this when I wrote the original code and all
> patient note writes go through a null (now) function and all notes to
> be read, likewise.
>
> My preliminary understanding is that I should use mcrypt. phpMyAdmin
> says "The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP
> configuration."
>
> apt-get upgrade php5-mcrypt says it is installed and up to date.
> phpinfo() has no mention of mcrypt.
>
>
> I would welcome any comments about mcrypt and/or how to get it
> installed if it is not.
>
> Thanks in advance
> -bill

Hi Bill,

On Arch Linux I have to add the following line to php.ini:

     extension=mcrypt.so


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