Re: resolution. was: [GNU Crypto] how to deal with weak keys.

[Casey Marshall]

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On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 09:05:20PM +1000, Raif S. Naffah wrote:

> it seems that i'm the only one convinced with the advantage of 
> conditional compilation.  everybody else, who expressed a view, sees 
> more benefit in having a (class) attribute with a getter method.
> 
> Casey, pls checkin your patch.
> 

One thing just occurred to me: Classpath does not (yet) have a robust
implementation of the access control mechanism, making secure setups
difficult on free platforms.

So; why not keep these constants for now -- especially since the parts
covered only include prime testing and DES weak keys? Though I do still
think that these things should be property based once (if) more choices
are added.

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Casey Marshall || address@hidden
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