[bind10-dev] crypto API

[Michael Graff]

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On 2010-02-25 10:20 AM, Francis Dupont wrote:
> The main question is inheritance vs embedding, i.e., if class X uses
> class Y do we want:
>  class X : Y
> or
>  class X {
>   Y y;
>  }

This is usually answered in this way:

  If X "is a" Y, then you write:

     class X : Y

  If X "has a " Y, then you write:

     class X {
        Y y;
     }

> Now we need:
>  - raw hash (at the top of most things)
>  - keyed hash
>  - HMAC (a case of keyed hash)
>  - iterated hash (a more complex case of keyed hash)
>  - signature public key (derives from raw hash)
>  - signature private key (which includes the previous one)
>  - DH?

Let's look into crypto++ and not write our own.

http://www.cryptopp.com/

- --Michael
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