-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Scott McMurray Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:17 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] gsoc project
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 04:31, Daniel James <dnljms@gmail.com> wrote:
On 25 March 2011 10:07, Paul A. Bristow <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> wrote:
There are already have five people looking at this project, but you might like to look at
Have you seen Scott McMurray's hash library?
I saw the checks and hashes as somewhat different projects. It would be silly, for example, to calculate the check digit for a VISA card using the same interface as a SHA-512 hash.
I'd encourage a potential GSOC participant to focus just on check digits. As the wiki mentions, there aren't any libraries out there for it, and it'd be a very useful thing for all sorts of scenarios.
All those things like "member numbers" or "catalog item numbers" just cry out for them to make the UX less terrible. And pragmatically, a check digits
I agree - that was my original intention. But there are *some* similarities between the two. (Often you feed a string and you get a 'check' be it a single 4 bit digit, or a loadsabits digest?). library
probably won't have to prove competitive performance with Crypto++, Botan, OpenSSL, etc in order to be accepted. It'd probably be mostly an interface- driven review.
And there are plenty of checks to do before getting too ambitious. I hope I've made it clear that I place great importance on finishing each type of check (including tests and docs) before doing another one.
That said, if anyone does want to work on hashes, I'd be happy to help. (At least as much as I can under the Work for Hire that's prevented me from working on it lately.)
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