On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some interface(s) which can handle virtually any cipher.
under inferno, i've used ssl(3) to implement a simple algorithm-agnostic crypto command; you could use tls(3) or ssl(3) under plan 9 to do the same thing. they're straightforward to use. the algorithms provided by each of these is different: inferno ssl: descbc desecb des_56_cbc des_56_ecb des_40_cbc des_40_ecb rc4 rc4_256 rc4_128 rc4_40 ideacbc ideaecb plan 9 tls: clear rc4_128 3des_ede_cbc plan 9 ssl: descbc desecb des_56_cbc des_56_ecb des_40_cbc des_40_ecb rc4 rc4_256 rc4_128 rc4_40 these are all implemented by the kernel, so not a great example for you, perhaps, but a nice example of a simple, uniform interface without any of the usual API cruft. see for example: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/3/ssl
