Re: [freenet-devl] Document structure, storables, Metadata-length

[Oskar Sandberg]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:35:59AM -0500, Scott G. Miller wrote:
< > 
> > Well, part of it is that having to strip off those few bytes tends to
> > require a whole extra filtering stream wrapped in, in the client code
> > I am working on (as I have to set up a passive layering of output
> > streams instead of an active layering of input streams).  Also, I
> > need to know the metadata length in order to set up these streams,
> > but I need them set up to read the metadata length :)
> Thats a decent point.

Wasn't there a second reason why we put the encryption key first?
Something about the mode requiring a highly random IV or something...


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