[PYTHON-CRYPTO] PEP 272 version 2

[Paul]

At 10:26 AM -0400 4/18/02, Bryan Mongeau wrote:
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>On Thursday 18 April 2002 06:44 am, Paul Rubin wrote:
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>>    I think PEP 272 shouldn't exist, because it aims to solve a
>>    non-existent problem, which is providing a standard API for multiple
>>    block cipher modules that plug interchangeably into applications.
>>    There's just no need for that.
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>I concur wholeheartedly with Paul. Perhaps someone could provide an example
>of an existing or imagined application that would require pluggable block
>ciphers?

IPsec, SSL, S/MIME, PGP all allow several blcok algorithms to be used
.... It depends what you call "pluggable, but a common api/class is
useful.

Paul

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