From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 95 11:22:19 PDT
To: hfinney@shell.portal.com (Hal)
Subject: Re: Object Oriented Crypto API
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| I enjoyed Ray's message about the crypto library interface.  I haven't
| had time to study it closely, but I have a couple of quick comments:

	I thought it was very well done as well, with one ommission,
other than the one Hal noted.  There should be a compress function,
becuase messages should be compressed before encryption takes place.

	Giving the library a zip() call also makes it possible to
suggest the library in more circumstances.  When people ask 'where can
I snarf some compression code?' we can point them to a library that
does strong crypto as well.

Adam

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