On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Scott McMurray wrote:
On 22 March 2010 15:27, DE <satan66613@yandex.ru> wrote:
what about such essential things like data compression and data encription?
i think these two will perfectly fit into boost as policy driven (template?) libraries
at least there would be a kind of standard interface to these facilities
How about, as a prerequisite to a larger encryption library, more cryptographic hashes?
For instance, UUID has an SHA-1, but would rather not maintain its own. Also, there are MD5-based UUIDs that the library can't provide yet, since it lacks an MD5 hasher.
Except for the scope (I think this might be a big small), I think this would make a good SOC project. MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, with a place for the current NIST contest winner when it is decided. If there is time, the concepts can be used to implement some symmetrical encryption algorithms (RC4, RC5, AES, etc). -- Marshall