21 Sep
2012
21 Sep
'12
10:21 a.m.
Simon Josefsson simon@josefsson.org writes:
I don't like it a lot either... I believe the uint8_t version should be called salsa20_core.
Agreed.
The tricky name is the uint32_t variant. Ideas:
On this list, I think I'd prefer one of
salsa_core_word salsa_core_uint32
Another alternative is to consider the function internal, at least for the time being, and name it _salsa20_core. One motivation to keep it internal is that it's suboptimal to have a function processing only a single block, we may need to generalize it if we want implement other things, e.g., a proper cryptographic hash function, using this primitive.
Regards, /Niels
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