Re: [boost] [SoC] Some extra ideas to Google SoC

Subject: Re: [boost] [SoC] Some extra ideas to Google SoC
From: Scott McMurray (me22.ca+boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-22 15:51:59

On 22 March 2010 15:27, DE <satan66613_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> what about such essential things like data compression and data
> encription?
>
> i think these two will perfectly fit into boost as policy driven
> (template?) libraries
>
> at least there would be a kind of standard interface to these
> facilities
>

How about, as a prerequisite to a larger encryption library, more
cryptographic hashes?

For instance, UUID has an SHA-1, but would rather not maintain its
own.  Also, there are MD5-based UUIDs that the library can't provide
yet, since it lacks an MD5 hasher.

I suspect a boost asymmetrical encryption system will need to wait
until we finally get a bigint library.