Review of AEAD Encryption API Project; concluding December 5, 2008

[Luke Howard]

Why not just make them 16 bits wide?

Sent from my iPhone

On 02/12/2008, at 9:08 AM, Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu> wrote:

>>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Howard <lukeh at padl.com> writes:
>
>>> Luke did this for compatibility with some work going on in the
>>> Samba community.  My preference would be to do it right and
>>> make this be a type.
>
>    Luke> Correct, I used the API proposed by Stefan (copied). Stefan,
>    Luke> perhaps you could explain why you made flags and type
>    Luke> separate fields in the IOV structure?
>
>
> Hmm.  I think Love was asking more about why sign_only was was a flag
> not a separate type from data.  However if we did make sign_only be a
> type, then perhaps we could fold alloc and allocated as higher order
> bits in the type and avoid the flags field.
>
>
> --Sam
>
>