RE: FW: First Attempt at Crypto Library

Since we already have a little hierarchy based on the codec's purpose: Codec.Image (e.g. Codec.Image.Jpeg) Codec.Video (e.g. Codec.Video.Mpeg2) then how about adding Codec.Text (e.g. Codec.Text.Base64) because its role, like uuencoding, is to convert binary streams to 7-bit ASCII text i.e. transmissible by email. [...] I would have thought that its population would look something like:

Codec.Encryption.DES Codec.Encryption.RSA Codec.Encryption.Blowfish

etc. No need for any deeper structure. Any attempt to further classify crypto schemes by method or purpose would be confusing I think. Crypto is just crypto, i.e. binary to binary.

Ok, both sound reasonable to me. Cheers, Simon