The common base of symmetric ciphers is SymmetricCipher. This fact is
documented here:
http://cryptopp.sourceforge.net/docs/ref5/struct_symmetric_cipher_documentation.html
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 07:56:37AM +0800, ccw wrote:
> In my program, I must determine the cipher type dynamically and so create the
> corresponding cipher object dynamically. Therefore, in definition, I need to define
> a variable as the pointer of the base class for all cipher class, like this:
>
> TheBaseCipherForAllCiphers *pCipher;
>
> Then in implementation, I will do like this:
>
> switch(nCipherAlgorithm)
> {
> case CIPHER_AES:
> pCipher = new CFB_Mode<AES >::Encryption(key, AES::DEFAULT_KEYLENGTH, iv);
> break;
> case CIPHER_ARC4:
> pCipher = new ARC4(key, keySize);
> break;
> }
>
> pCipher->ProcessString(lpBuf, nCount);
>
> The problem is, I cannot find the appropriate class in place of
> TheBaseCipherForAllCiphers. I try SymmetricCipherDocumentation, but always get a
> compiler error.
