On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 09:24:49PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote: > > > > Steven is right about this, the extra hash is simply unnecessary. > > > > make_key(data + padding) is fine. > > > > > > It doesn't really matter and it makes the code simpler with the extra > > > hash. > > Exactly. Otherwise you have to have a brand new make_key algorithm for > > working with large streams of data. > > Yeah, we were through this. I then wrote such a method. It was four > lines...
Well, this is how I'm doing it now: CHK encryption key = make_key(hash(data)) i.e., NO padding. I can't see how doing make_key(data) would make things easier, but if people want this, I don't care. What doesn't make sense to me is using data+padding to generate the encryption key. It would make the code unnecessarily complicated, without serving any purpose. -- # tavin cole # # "The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, # a continual flight from wonder." # - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
