[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Public API for RC4 and DES

[Måns Rullgård]

Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 05:08:46PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> would there be a problem with having both the low level 1 block and highlevel
>> APIs public?
>
> Not really, would just be a matter of ff_des_encdec -> av_des_encdec, it
> just seemed a bit ugly/overkill to me.
>
>> > I would not mind a better API, but I doubt there is much choice (except
>> > making the struct structure public).
>> 
>> i dont mind making it public if consensus is that its better and that we
>> wont need to change it anytime soon
>
> Well, for DES I would just use
> uint64_t keys[3];
> int 3des;
>
> instead so I can implement 3DES whenever I have some spare time
> without changing it.

3DES uses only 2 keys.

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