[ciphertool-devel] next steps

[Wart <wa...@ko...>]

Now that 1.6.0 is out, it's time to think about what should go into the
next release.  I've got a few ideas.  Feel free to make suggestions to
add more or remove some:

Major tasks:

1) Add an "encode pt key" subcommand to all cipher types to make it easy
to encrypt plaintext using a given key.  This will make it possible to
write scripts that encode the same plaintext or different plaintext
samples in a variety of ways to analyze the statistical characteristics
of the encryption methods.

2) Implement a new more portable file format for cipher data.  Some
discussion has already begun on this.  We need to continue the
discussion and come to a conclusion on the final format.

Minor tasks:

1) Support the use of wordtree scoring methods on the command line. 
This just needs a simple procedure for loading a new wordtree, as we
already do with 2,3,n-grams.

2) Add an example of a Tcl-based scoring method, with documentation on
how it is done.  The example should be a combo digram + wordtree.

3) Add "rpmopt" targets to the Makefile for generating cpu-optimized
packges.

--Wart