strciphr.h File Reference

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Detailed Description

This file contains helper classes for implementing stream ciphers.

All this infrastructure may look very complex compared to what's in Crypto++ 4.x, but stream ciphers implementations now support a lot of new functionality, including better performance (minimizing copying), resetting of keys and IVs, and methods to query which features are supported by a cipher.

Here's an explanation of these classes. The word "policy" is used here to mean a class with a set of methods that must be implemented by individual stream cipher implementations. This is usually much simpler than the full stream cipher API, which is implemented by either AdditiveCipherTemplate or CFB_CipherTemplate using the policy. So for example, an implementation of SEAL only needs to implement the AdditiveCipherAbstractPolicy interface (since it's an additive cipher, i.e., it xors a keystream into the plaintext). See this line in seal.h:

typedef SymmetricCipherFinal<ConcretePolicyHolder<SEAL_Policy<B>, AdditiveCipherTemplate<> > > Encryption;

AdditiveCipherTemplate and CFB_CipherTemplate are designed so that they don't need to take a policy class as a template parameter (although this is allowed), so that their code is not duplicated for each new cipher. Instead they each get a reference to an abstract policy interface by calling AccessPolicy() on itself, so AccessPolicy() must be overriden to return the actual policy reference. This is done by the ConceretePolicyHolder class. Finally, SymmetricCipherFinal implements the constructors and other functions that must be implemented by the most derived class.

Definition in file strciphr.h.#include "seckey.h"
#include "secblock.h"
#include "argnames.h"

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Classes
class	AbstractPolicyHolder< POLICY_INTERFACE, BASE >
class	ConcretePolicyHolder< POLICY, BASE, POLICY_INTERFACE >
struct	AdditiveCipherAbstractPolicy
struct	AdditiveCipherConcretePolicy< WT, W, X, BASE >
struct	AdditiveCipherConcretePolicy< WT, W, X, BASE >::KeystreamOutput< B >
class	AdditiveCipherTemplate< BASE >
class	CFB_CipherAbstractPolicy
struct	CFB_CipherConcretePolicy< WT, W, BASE >
struct	CFB_CipherConcretePolicy< WT, W, BASE >::RegisterOutput< B >
class	CFB_CipherTemplate< BASE >
class	CFB_EncryptionTemplate< BASE >
class	CFB_DecryptionTemplate< BASE >
class	CFB_RequireFullDataBlocks< BASE >
class	SymmetricCipherFinal< BASE, INFO >
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Enumerations
enum	KeystreamOperation { WRITE_KEYSTREAM, XOR_KEYSTREAM, XOR_KEYSTREAM_INPLACE }

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