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 _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org
