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Use Botan Pipe and Filters

Open lambdafu opened this issue 7 years ago • 0 comments

This is challenging, because:

  • GnuPG uses a push/pull architecture for write/read pipes, while Botan only supports a push/push architecture (this is why usually the read and write direction of a filter are merged in a single filter object, but only one of the parts is used).
  • GnuPG has some support for OpenPGP encodings inside the pipe implementation (for example splitting up in chunks with partial length headers)
  • GnuPG changes the filter set up dynamically (for example to insert compression/decompression after detection)

Simplifying the logic so much that we can do the final replacement will take a while. Maybe it is faster to reimplement from scratch.

lambdafu avatar Dec 11 '17 21:12 lambdafu