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List:       botan-devel
Subject:    [Botan-devel] Botan AES C/C++ Encryption Questions
From:       omon.edeki () nowellgroup ! com (Omon Edeki (Nowell, Inc))
Date:       2008-12-18 14:26:10
Message-ID: 013A213962594E96994DA0B09AEF4879 () OmonPC
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Thanks very much for the response Jack. I am currently working on this 
project and if I have any more questions, Ill be getting in touch.

Omon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Lloyd" <lloyd at randombit.net>
To: <botan-devel at randombit.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Botan-devel] Botan AES C/C++ Encryption Questions


> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 04:43:30PM -0600, Omon Edeki (Nowell, Inc) wrote:
>
>>   3.. I am leaning more towards Botan because it seems like its supported 
>> by real people
>
> I should point out this is an unfounded assumption. I might well be an
> AI or other artificial construct of some kind. Certainly I perceive
> myself as having a physical existence but that doesn't really mean
> anything.
>
> It would be pretty sad if someone actually went to the bother of
> simulating me just so I would write and support a crypto library,
> but I guess I am hardly capable of guessing the motivations of
> an entity smart enough to design a computer to simulate me plus my
> entire (perceived) universe.
>
> I guess this is really neither here nor there.
>
>> 4.. My question is if we compile our code with the Botan library,
>>   when the run time executable is generated, how much more space
>>   will the Botan-compiled-and-linked application consume?
>
>> 5.. Currently our application is about 650KB on file and when loaded
>>   into memory it consumes about 1.2 MB for the code space and the
>>   dataspace. IF we add Botan, how much more memory consumption
>>   should we expect?
>
> That will depend greatly entirely on (at least):
>
> - the build options you use
> - which classes and functions are called from the application
> - use of shared objects vs static libraries
> - which compiler and version
> - ABI details (some ABIs are much more wordy than others)
>
> On my Linux/x86-64 system, a GCC compiled binary that does encryption
> (along with compression and a few other things) totals up at 27 Kb
> using a shared object, or 1.4 Mb using static libs. So I guess
> the answer will be somewhere in that range, roughly.
>
> I think you'd really have to just try it out and see, though.
>
> -Jack
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