On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 9:47:22 PM UTC-5, El Ray wrote:
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>
> Sorry..deleted that just before your reply appeared.  On further 
> consideration I also realized that although I just got some code to work, I 
> shouldn't assume it's a non-issue till the cross-validation you discussed 
> was done.  But apologies in advanve if this is a non-issue.
>

Nah, don't worry about it.

The intentions were good and most of the design was good for variable block 
sizes. We had a few pain points on the cut-in because of the high degree of 
template parameterization, and depending on virtual functions to correct 
some hard coded values.

If the library is hard to use correctly, then that points to failures in 
our design. I think it is more important to correct the design problems 
then applying band-aides to each incorrect usage. Consider, you used the 
block cipher the same way block ciphers have been used for the last 25 
years, but you could not arrive at the correct result. That's our problem, 
not your problem.

We are tracking the variable block cipher removal at 
https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/issues/535.

Jeff

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