PolarSSL is a C-based cryptography and SSL library which has a GPL license, which makes it ideal for use with BEDOPS, where I plan to use it for quick SHA-1 hashes of metadata, so as to help validate the integrity of the archive. I’ve been testing it out in Mac OS X 10.8 and it […]
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Hex words are magic
I plan to use a magic number in the second major release of our BEDOPS suite to uniquely identify starch-formatted archive files. Looking at the first few bytes of the archive will help us because I plan to move the metadata to the back of the archive file, and it would be expensive to seek […]