encrypt without mcrypt?

[microair]

hi,

i want to encrypt a string which i later want to decrypt but want it done using my custom key, don't want to use mcrypt... anyother way to encrypt and decrypt using my key?

[thewitt]

Why don't you want to use the mcrypt functions? They work very well for symetric encryption.

-t

[microair]

i just don't want to recompile my php, as mcrypt library doesn't come defaultly...