Add new top-level algorithm which provides basic functionality: name

query, clearing, and cloning. Applies to ciphers, hashes, MACs, and
PBKDFs. May extend to KDFs later as well.

A single combined hierarchy in particular will make the algo_factory
much simpler.

1 files changed, 62 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/algo_base/key_spec.h b/src/algo_base/key_spec.h
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+/*
+* Symmetric Key Length Specification
+* (C) 2010 Jack Lloyd
+*
+* Distributed under the terms of the Botan license
+*/
+
+#ifndef BOTAN_KEY_LEN_SPECIFICATION_H__
+#define BOTAN_KEY_LEN_SPECIFICATION_H__
+
+#include <botan/types.h>
+
+namespace Botan {
+
+class BOTAN_DLL Key_Length_Specification
+   {
+   public:
+      Key_Length_Specification(size_t keylen) :
+         min_keylen(keylen),
+         max_keylen(keylen),
+         keylen_mod(1)
+         {
+         }
+
+      Key_Length_Specification(size_t min_k,
+                               size_t max_k,
+                               size_t k_mod = 1) :
+         min_keylen(min_k),
+         max_keylen(max_k ? max_k : min_k),
+         keylen_mod(k_mod)
+         {
+         }
+
+      bool valid_keylength(size_t length) const
+         {
+         return ((length >= min_keylen) &&
+                 (length <= max_keylen) &&
+                 (length % keylen_mod == 0));
+         }
+
+      size_t minimum_keylength() const
+         {
+         return min_keylen;
+         }
+
+      size_t maximum_keylength() const
+         {
+         return max_keylen;
+         }
+
+      size_t keylength_multiple() const
+         {
+         return keylen_mod;
+         }
+
+   private:
+      size_t min_keylen, max_keylen, keylen_mod;
+   };
+
+}
+
+#endif