On Sun, 2014-12-07 at 13:50 +0100, Niels Möller wrote:

> >> Question is, does that solve a real problem? 
> > What do you mean by that?
> If one prefers to not have that cast, one can call always call
> gcm_encrypt directly; GCM_ENCRYPT is an optional feature.
> 
> So my question is, do you think it would make your code easier to read
> and debug, if nettle provided a simple non-magic wrapper macro around
> gcm_encrypt (in addition to the current GCM_ENCRYPT macro which you find
> questionable), or would it be clearer to call gcm_encrypt directly?

No. Putting an other safer macro will not solve that issue. My concern
is on the easiness to have a bug-free transition to 3.0 from 2.7.1.

regards,
Nikos


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