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Ibrahim H Abed (ihabed@uncc.edu) wrote:
: I was wondering does encryption with C++ offer some advantages/dis-
: advantages over C?  Would the object-oriented approach to programming
: in C++ help in some of the complicated operations involved in encryption
: methods such as DES and other complicated schemes?

The actual bit-grinding encryption/decryption algorithms would be best
implemented the same way in C++ as in C.  The advantages of using C++
will be in the structuring of an encryption library.

Good C++ classes for encryption and decryption hide a lot of the
mundane data-handling work from the user.  The same interface can
support many interchangeable algorithms.  The class can keep track of
keys, chained values and partially computed blocks without the user
having to constantly pass these in and out.  The class may handle
buffering internally and provide a state-driven interface, so when
encrypting the user can pass in plaintext strings of any size as
they're available and read out ciphertext as it's needed.

--Bryan