[ciphertool-devel] next steps
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From: Wart <wa...@ko...> - 2004-03-31 01:23:39
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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 |