Crypto, deimos, and ares

[Derek Parnell]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:00:40 -0600, Brad Anderson wrote:

> Regan Heath wrote:
>> You might be interested in some existing crypto work I've done:
>>   http://svn.dsource.org/projects/deimos/trunk/etc/crypto/hash/
>> 
>> The library "deimos" never really got off the ground, I think it may be 
>> tome to salvage what can be salvaged from deimos and put it somewhere 
>> else, perhaps in "Ares", Shaun? If the crypto stuff is unsuitable for
>> any  reason let me know and I can re-work it.
>> 
>> Regan
> 
> Woo Hoo!  Definitely send the crypto stuff to Ares if Sean will have it.  I
> have a blowfish algorithm that I'm working on - not sure how it stacks up with
> 'r's version, but a consistent API for all of the crypto algorithms would be
> great.
> 
> encryptString(char|wchar|dchar)
> decryptString(char|wchar|dchar)
> 
> encryptFile()
> decryptFile()
> 
> I'm not sure if this 'consistent' API is possible given the differences in the
> crypto libs, or if it's a good idea at all.

Need to cater for non-text data too. 

 encryptData(ubyte[])
 decryptData(ubyte[])


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Derek
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24/03/2006 10:03:21 AM