Re: [freenet-devl] Document structure, storables, Metadata-length

[Scott G. Miller]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:20:43PM +0200, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:35:59AM -0500, Scott G. Miller wrote:
> < > 
> > > Well, part of it is that having to strip off those few bytes tends to
> > > require a whole extra filtering stream wrapped in, in the client code
> > > I am working on (as I have to set up a passive layering of output
> > > streams instead of an active layering of input streams).  Also, I
> > > need to know the metadata length in order to set up these streams,
> > > but I need them set up to read the metadata length :)
> > Thats a decent point.
> 
> Wasn't there a second reason why we put the encryption key first?
> Something about the mode requiring a highly random IV or something...
Actually yes.  Damn I should stop replying to these emails when I'm
tired.

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