On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 11:33 +1000, Raif S. Naffah wrote: > hello John, > > On Thursday 06 July 2006 23:04, John Pritchard wrote: > > ... > > Having a look at Pads again last night, there's no way for a Pad to > > get configured > > the only attribute that can currently be configured on an IPad is the > pad block size. usually when an algorithm of a certain type offers > more configuration options than what the type interface offers, these > are handled by algorithm-specific methods; e.g. Haval and > IMessageDigest. > we can also add an additional initialisation method --init(Map > attributes)-- to the padding interface to cater for this new types of > padders. > FWIW, I think adding this is a good idea. > > > --- which would be why the last one came out a mode. > > what last one? > I think he is referring to http://developer.classpath.org/pipermail/classpath/2006-June/001062.html i.e the OAEP-AONT John contributed earlier. Thanks, Vivek
