[boost] Re: [iostreams] Review Results -- Iostreams Accepted

From: Pavel Vozenilek (pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-03 18:05:54

"Jonathan Turkanis" wrote:

> > This also lead me to question: is there example of any
> > encryption/decryption filter in Iostreams?
>
> Not yet.
>
> > There are quite many of them in C++, each using their
> > own conventions and it may happen someone will
> > normalize them to be useable within Iostreams.
>
> I thought of writing wrappers for the crypto++ library, which I have used
> successfully before. However, the library's documentation is terrible.
Also it
> is large, takes a long time to build and provides it's own chaining
mechanism,
> so I'm not sure how useful wrappers would be.
>
> If you know of some links to fairly self-contained implementations of
> cryptographic algorithms, could you post them?
>
Maybe something small as ROT13 could be used
as starting example.

/Pavel