AES anyone?
kris
foo at bar.com
Fri Aug 17 14:43:27 PDT 2007
BCS wrote:
> Reply to Bedros,
>
>> can you explain your idea of streaming?
>
> It would sit on top of another stream object (a socket or file object or
> whatever). When it is given data it would encrypt it and pass it out the
> other side. Another object at the other end would receive the data and
> decrypt it. If, for instance, the intervening data path is a network
> socket, then the code that uses the stream would be able to treat the
> objects as if they were the socket it's self. As to the 16 byte issue,
> undersized packets would be padded and the length would also transfered
> with them. How, would be up to the implementation.
>
>
> IIRC Tango has a way of doing this sort of filtering.
Yes, Tango has stream filters to modulate (or even hijack) the content
flowing through. Such filters are usually built upon a more generic
mechanism though, such as plain old incremental-adjustment (the strategy
followed by tango.io.digest classes)
- Kris
[snip]
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