Author: James CE Johnson

ACE Tutorial 015
Building a protocol stream

While I might be able to come up with a competitive compressor, I don't have a snowball's chance to code up encryption. I'd be better off piping the data through the standard Unix crypt command.

So, while I was lazy with Compress, I'm realistic with Crypt. I'll show you the hooks and entry points and let someone else contribute an encryptor.

    // page20.html,v 1.11 1999/04/03 21:56:31 jcej Exp

    #ifndef CRYPT_H
    #define CRYPT_h

    #include "Protocol_Task.h"

    /* An interface (adaptor) between your favorite encryption method and
       an ACE_Stream.
    */
    class Crypt : public Protocol_Task
    {
    public:

      typedef Protocol_Task inherited;

      Crypt (void);

      ~Crypt (void);

    protected:

      // Moving downstream will encrypt the data
      int send (ACE_Message_Block *message,
                ACE_Time_Value *timeout);

      // And moving upstream will decrypt it.
      int recv (ACE_Message_Block *message,
                ACE_Time_Value *timeout);
    };

    #endif /* CRYPT_H */

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