[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: clientsession-0.7.3.4 (performance enhancement)

Vincent Hanquez tab at snarc.org
Sun Nov 27 21:23:02 CET 2011


On 11/27/2011 04:27 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> tl;dr: randomIV is now much faster, API is the same, upgrade ASAP to
> avoid painful slowdowns.
>
> Version 0.7 of clientsession brought with it a much enhanced
> encryption and hashing algorithm, courtesy of Felipe Lessa. Beginning
> with this version, you now need to provide an Initialization Vector
> (IV) for encrypting cookies, and these IVs need to be randomly
> generated. To start off with, we simply used the getIVIO[1] function
> to generate these values.
Hi Michael,

It's looking good. BTW, it looks quite similar to what cprng-aes do, which is 
expected since they are both implementing a AES CTR RNG,
but i wonder if it would make sense to merge things together.

-- 
Vincent



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