[smileysteve]

As a note, Laravel 4.2 uses mcrypt by standard. openssl is an option

[sarciszewski]

https://github.com/bcit-ci/CodeIgniter/blob/3a9eb39f61b10b3f...

CodeIgniter prioritizes OpenSSL over Mcrypt. I swear I did not tip their devs off before I wrote it, Andrey Andreev must have come to a similar conclusion on his own.