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

Subject: Re: [boost] [SoC] Some extra ideas to Google SoC
From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-22 16:09:52

On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Scott McMurray wrote:

> 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.

Except for the scope (I think this might be a big small), I think this would make a good SOC project.
MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, with a place for the current NIST contest winner when it is decided.

If there is time, the concepts can be used to implement some symmetrical encryption algorithms (RC4, RC5, AES, etc).

-- Marshall