Re: [NSE][PATCH] OpenSSL bindings for NSE

["Patrick Donnelly" <batrick.donnelly () gmail com>]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Sven Klemm <sven () c3d2 de> wrote:
> Adding furthing functions is trivial. I am not yet sure about the best
> interface for the hashing functions though.
> These are the possibilities I see:
> - - add two functions for each algorithm one producing binary data the
> other producing a hexencoded string
> - - add a flag to the function signature controlling whether binary data
> or a hexencoded string should be returned
> - - only create functions producing binary data and do the conversion
> with bin.unpack
> - - only create functions producing binary data and add a to_hex
> function to the lua string class

I just want to caution that there are many existing libraries for Lua,
especially for OpenSSL (e.g. http://luacrypto.luaforge.net/). Careful
not to reinvent any wheels :)

Cheers,

-- 
-Patrick Donnelly

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing
to do and always a clever thing to say."

-Will Durant

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