[Cryptography-dev] Low level API for Symmetric Encryption

[Paul Kehrer]

I like this as it doesn't expect the mode class to hold all the important contexts. This is a nitpick since we're just discussing, but I'd like a different term than BlockCipher. Something that implies it is a complete set of the constructs needed. Maybe SymmetricEncryption?

> On Aug 7, 2013, at 10:20 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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>> On Aug 7, 2013, at 10:25 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
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>> 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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