Andrew Kuchling wrote:
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 04:31:31PM -0400, Gordon McMillan wrote:
RC4, maybe. But I think you're asking for trouble in trying to pretend a block-mode cipher is a stream.
Dunno, but we'll hash that out on the python-crypto list. For now I just wanted to know if parametrized codecs would be an inherently bad idea.
(Two ways of handling this would be requiring all write() calls to use a multiple of the block size, or reporting an error on the close() if you haven't written out an even number of blocks. I have no idea which is preferable; not sure I like either of them...)
I guess you'll need some kind of buffering in the reader/writer to handle this situation. The cipher.py tools in mxCrypto does this already, so it may serve as template for the needed code. (This is getting off-topic though for this list...) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Consulting & Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.lemburg.com/python/