Re: [boost] Crypto Proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] Crypto Proposal
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-14 11:59:41

On 4/14/2010 11:21 AM, Domagoj Saric wrote:
> "Sohail Somani"<sohail_at_[hidden]>  wrote in message
> news:hpv952$89d$1_at_dough.gmane.org...
>> >  On 12/04/2010 7:52 AM, Domagoj Saric wrote:
>>> >>  IMNHO that's a failed test by any standard (worse than OpenSSL and
>>> >>  Crypto++)...
>>> >>  (must I really pay for e.g. virtual inheritance, dynamic_casts,
>>> >>  by-std::string-runtime-algorithm-lookups etc. etc... for such a simple use
>>> >>  case?)...
>> >
>> >  1) If you write such simple applications, you are very lucky
> I am not 'lucky' nor write 'such simple applications': one can, for example,
> write fairly complex DSP applications that, as such, have nothing to do with
> cryptography but can use a ready digest-verification implementation for example
> for licence file verification...It is reasonable to expect that such a simple
> use case does not suddenly double your binary size..with cryptographic code that
> you never ever use.

So let me understand: you created a program from a use case, did not use 
Botan's capability to include only what you need, and then you said that 
the resulting binary was too big? I think you should try again but only 
include what you need for your use case. I can believe that you would 
like to keep the size down but I think you should do a proper test.