On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 09:07:39AM -0500, Scott G. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:20:43PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> > 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...
> Actually yes.  Damn I should stop replying to these emails when I'm
> tired.

Can you guys elaborate on this?  Is it so important that we must
continue keeping the crypto key stuff at the beginning of the document
instead of in Storable.Client-data?

-- 

# tavin cole
#
# "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect,
#  a continual flight from wonder."
#                                   - Albert Einstein


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