» Sunday, 24 February A.D. 2008
new ironclad release
Ironclad 0.25 is out and available from the usual place. There are a few optimizations suggested by Attila Lendvai, and corrections for two thinkos: CRC32 was bugged and the testsuite wasn't included (it works perfectly, I promise...). Thanks to Todd Sabin and Peter Graves, respectively, for pointing out those flaws.
Also, somebody suggested a long time ago that it would be nice if Ironclad included a “dummy” cipher that did nothing. (It might have been a simple XOR cipher, actually; I do not remember.) I thought that seemed like a silly idea at the time, but have since come to think that having such a cipher would be useful in real-world cases. So Ironclad now includes the NULL block cipher, which--at least in ECB mode--copies its input to its output unmodified. Enjoy!
posted by Nate @ 4:30PM