Re: Crypt::*

>>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan Torkington <[email protected]> writes:
    Nathan> We had several Crypt modules on our list: CBC, DES, IDEA,
    Nathan> and SSLeay.  Pick and choose.  My personal preference is
    Nathan> for DES and IDEA, because I've never heard of an
    Nathan> application that uses CBC, and SSLeay requires a
    Nathan> third-party library that has given me nightmares trying to
    Nathan> build it.

IDEA and DES (for now) are both encumbered by patents and licencing
issues: shipping them without mentioning this could get someone (in
the US at least) into legal hot water.  CBC, to me, means Cipher Block
Chaining which is a method of configuring a stream cipher not an
independent ciper itself.

Given all that, I'd still like to see ::DES, ::IDEA and ::SSLeay (or
some newer, openssl related module) stay.

-- 
Stephen

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