[Remops] Ping: Steve

[Steve Crook]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:17:07PM -0600, richard at quicksilvermail.net wrote:
> 
> I saw that you got out an update for your YAMN software. Can you
> remember when we both first arrived here? Man, you've come a long way!
> Congradulations!

Hi Richard,

I'm pleased with the way YAMN is coming along.  It's got a long way to
go though before it's ready for prime-time.  I'm concerned that Go
is statically compiled so I can't produce a DLL suitable for QS.  This
is a significant issue as one of my principle goals was to make it as
near as possible to a drop-in replacement for Mixmaster.

> In my last post to you, I gave the info on things that need to be fixed,
> but I forgot to tell you what my plan is. Sorry. It's my intention to
> hold release of the windows binary until you have time to fix the
> issues. Then I'll download the new software from github and compile that
> for distribution.


My apologies, I somehow missed your other points after fixing the error
in AES_CTR.  I note Elvis has now applied my patch and also swapped
around the declaration and function call.

In terms of the KEYLEN issue, I believe we have a conflict between two
github repositories.  In my repository
(https://github.com/crooks/mixmaster4096) there is a patch to enable the
operator to define KEYLEN.  This dictates what size keys will be
auto-generated.  This hasn't been committed to Elvis's repository
(https://github.com/merkinmuffley/mixmaster4096), I'm
guessing because he would prefer to see all new keys generated at the
larger keysize.  I can see the logic of that and have no issues with him
choosing not to pull my request.  It does though raise the question of
which repository you (and others) should be compiling against.

In my opinion, at least at the current time, I'm very happy for Elvis's
to be the default repository.  He has after all, taken Mixmaster to a
new level and continues to refine it.  I'll make changes in
my own repository but principally for the purpose of submitting patches
and pull requests. Elvis can then decide if they should be included.
Are you happy with that approach?

On that basis, I'll now make a change to the ALLPINGERS and submit a
pull request to Elvis.

Regards
Steve
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