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authorlloyd <[email protected]>2013-03-05 00:40:44 +0000
committerlloyd <[email protected]>2013-03-05 00:40:44 +0000
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Document BlockCipher::parallelism
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@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ All block ciphers classes in botan are subclasses of
Identical to :cpp:func:`decrypt`\ (block, block)
+ .. cpp:function:: size_t parallelism() const
+
+ Returns the native parallelism of this implementation, ie how
+ many blocks can be processed in parallel if sufficient data is
+ passed to :cpp:func:`encrypt_n` or :cpp:func:`decrypt_n`.
+
Stream Ciphers
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