[Cryptography-dev] Low level API for Symmetric Encryption

[Donald Stufft]

On Aug 7, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> Speaking of the Padding made me wonder if we're overloading the constructor of the mode too much, i'm not sure though because wether or not you want padding is dependent on the mode.
> 
> Maybe we want::
> 
>    cipher = BlockCipher(AES(key), CBC(iv), PKCS7())

More thought on this, I'm not sure if the padding should be an argument to
the mode or not, but one thing I do particularly like about this is it feels more
like "AES-128-CBC" than CBC(AES(key), iv, …) does.

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