The mcrypt php extension and the underlying libmcrypt are unmaintained and there is a strong effort to remove them from the PHP core. [[1](http://blog.remirepo.net/post/2015/07/07/About-libmcrypt-and-php-mcrypt)] [[2](http://thefsb.tumblr.com/post/110639027905/custodians-of-php-vote-to-keep-a-crypto-lib)] This would be a good opportunity to port any password or data encryption to the better maintained openssl or password extensions.
