Re: shisa API for setting password in plaintext

[Elrond]

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:11:05AM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote:
[...]
> See src/shisa.c for an example.  You'll have to compute the salt
> yourself, e.g. like this:
[...]

Yeah, I saw that code and wondered, that it should be put
in a library.


> Given that deriving the salt is non-trivial, I agree that there should
> be some helper API that does this step for you (and even does it
> correctly as well, a proper principal parser exists in libshishi).
[...]

Do we have a chance of getting the (not yet correct) one
into the library, so that the API is there and apps at
least start using a consistent salt generation?


    Elrond