Cryptography

Cryptography is a very interesting study at the least. I've managed to learn the CryptoAPI functions to implement the DES, TripleDES, and RC2 cryptographic methods. Now I've been messing around with the Rijndael algorithm. It's based on the AES cipher, but allows for larger blocks to be handled. I haven't started to learn about the hash functions. I'm sure they will be another adventure.

Otherwise, things are coming along fine. The tests for these routines are quite long as I read in a file with all the required information to perform encryption/decryption. I do many combinations for the parameters making for large amounts of test data. But, I think it's important that these routines are solid on the first try.

Also, I'm seriously considering breaking binary compatibility. There are some updates that are needling me. I'm thinking that since the source code is downloaded the most then everyone is probably compiling it themselves, meaning there is no binary compatibility anyways. So I'm really thinking about cleaning things up and updating some interfaces. Well see how it goes.

-Kelly