General encryption / decryption functions

From: D. Alvarado (laredotornado_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: 31 Jul 2004 11:45:01 -0700

On my Fedora Core 2 Linux dev box, I have installed mcrypt and
compiled PHP with the --with-mcrypt option. I am concerned that when
I move to another hosting enviornment mcrypt will not be supported.
In people's experiences, have hosting companies supporting PHP/MySQL
generally provided support for mcrypt?

Does anyone recommend another module for encryption/decryption that
accompanies the PHP package?

Thanks, - Dave