CICiPHPerCoder·Jul 23, 2016
I'm the person who published this advisory to oss-sec and a co-author of https://github.com/defuse/php-encryption
I also wrote https://github.com/paragonie/halite which is a PHP library aims to make libsodium incredibly easy for PHP developers to get right.
For systems that need asymmetric crypto and can't install libsodium, I also wrote https://github.com/paragonie/EasyRSA which side-steps a lot of the mistakes developers make. EasyRSA uses defuse for symmetric-key encryption, then encrypts the AES key with RSA.
Writing secure cryptography isn't trivial. Assuming the three projects I just linked to are secure enough to use (all indications point to: they are), there's literally no reason to reinvent the wheel solely for Magento.
Magento already uses Composer; they could just add them to their composer.json file and rewrite their routines
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to use defuse + maybe EasyRSA if they have a use case for it.
Zend\Crypt is also an acceptable choice, as long as you don't install the version with an RSA implementation vulnerable to padding oracle attacks. https://framework.zend.com/security/advisory/ZF2015-10