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... -- 'DeCSS would be fine. Where is it?' 'Here,' Montag touched his head. 'Ah,' Granger smiled and nodded. Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
