From: Stephen Sprunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
stephen> After implementing CBC, CFB, OFB, and CTR for AES (mostly plagiarized
stephen> from IDEA), I'm beginning to wonder why we have 40 different
stephen> implementations of the exact same algorithms in the first place.
stephen> Couldn't we have a general "modes" macro set, to which you pass the
stephen> ECB function of the cipher you're using?
The current state is EAY legacy. His idea was that one should be able
to pick out any of the algorithm directories and create a separate
library for them (the old libdes is actually exactly the same as
crypto/des/).
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