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Re: [gnutls-dev] Symmetric cipher API
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Werner Koch |
Subject: |
Re: [gnutls-dev] Symmetric cipher API |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:33:11 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) |
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:14, address@hidden said:
> input piece-meal, as an arbitrary data stream, and the EVP functions
> take care of carving it up into block-sized chunks and feeding each
> chunk to the cipher function. Finally, the EVP functions take care of
The format of these chunks is entirely protocol depended and thus is not
a good choice for a low level API. You think that CMS is what everyone
needs, I use OpenPGP more often and Joe Hacker thinks that BAR/9001 is a
better protocol and thus wants an API to fit its outer formatting rules.
Salam-Shalom,
Werner
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Re: [gnutls-dev] Symmetric cipher API, Simon Josefsson, 2007/11/25