[Cryptography-dev] "Streaming" APIs

[Donald Stufft]

On Sep 14, 2013, at 4:05 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

> If we created an encryption context object we could do
> 
> BlockCipher.encryptor() = EncryptionContext()  # Has the .update() + .finalize() api
> BlockCipher.iter_encrypti() = Iter based API, uses BlockCipher.encryptor() internally
> BlockCipher.encrypt() = solid string only based API, uses iter_encrypt() internally
> 
> I had thought about this but I ended up not bothering because the mental overhead
> of giving users an EncryptionContext didn't see worth it over just passing a list.
> 
> 

So how bout dem iter apis.


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