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Harald Welte laforge at gnumonks.orgHi Max,
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 05:33:58PM +0100, ☎ wrote:
> Attached is a trivial patch which breaks existing GPRS cipher API of
> libosmocore by switching from fixed 64-bit length Kc to
> variable-length.
I like it.
> There are several justifications for that:
Agreed.
> - nobody uses this API anyway (except my other patches with GEA)
Well, there is libosmo-crypt-a53, which impements also GEA3 and which
registers a cipher. That would need to change, too.
> That's why I think next libosmocore version should apply this patch
> and change unused API before someone actually start using it and makes
> transition more difficult.
There may very well be existing code that you or I don't know about.
We will have to change LIBVERSION to announce ABI breakage, but that's
not a problem...
Regards,
Harald
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