Renaming AES to AES-128

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Donnerstag, 2. Dezember 2010 12:40:24 schrieb Werner Koch:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:40, bernhard at intevation.de said:
> > Leaving the primary identifier like it was, is a source of confusion
> > which also has a cost. What is the cost and consequences of the ABI
> > change?
>
> Debian alone lists 225 packages depending on libgcrypt.  And there are
> for sure many more users.  All these packages would need a rebuild and
> the maintainers need to go over it to figure out whether the change may
> affect them.

Can you explain briefly to me, why they would need a rebuild
and why ABI usage is really broken?
I mean applications with use gcry_cipher_open(x,GCRY_CIPHER_AES,..) and this 
will just continue to work.

Okay gcry_cipher_algo_name(GCRY_CIPHER_AES) would return "AES-128"
instead of "AES", but does this really warrant a rebuild? The index number 
just stays the same.

> You don't change an ABI if there is not a serious reason to do that.
>
> Those who want to list "AES-128" instead of AES may easily use a wrapper
> like
>
>   const char *
>   cipher_algo_name (int algo)
>   {
>     if (algo == GCRY_CIPHER_AES)
>       return "AES-128";
>     else
>       return gcry_cipher_algo_name (algo);
>   }

So we could do this for gpg2 --version?

> > deprecated so it will go away after X years. Could there be software that
> > would still stumble then?
>
> We can't know.

The list of supported algos will evolve over time, 
why not change the behaviour here?


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