Re: [GNU Crypto] assembly

[Raif S. Naffah]

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hello Casey,

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 01:13 pm, Casey Marshall wrote:
> Raif S. Naffah wrote:
> > hello there,
> >
> > here is a follow up on the assembly discussion we started earlier
> > --apologies for taking that long, but i got side-tracked.
> >
> > * the Assembly is the core class.
> > * it uses the package-private class CascadeTransformer at its core
> > and * allows for pre- and post- (untested yet) transformation
> > through subclasses of Transformer.
> > * PaddingTransformer is an example of a pre-transformer.
> > * TestOfAssembly exercises a PKCS7-padded Blowfish in OFB mode.
>
> I've been side-tracked recently, too, but will look into these more
> carefully soon.
>
> What you have looks pretty sound, though, on first look.

i'm going through it again, and started refining the notion of pre- and 
post- transformers.  i think there's a much cleaner, and more robust 
way to handle assemblies.

i'll wait until you had a chance to look at the present version though, 
before posting the new alternative.

look forward to your comments.

 
cheers;
rsn
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