Re: Templates HowTo?

On 21 Feb, 09:20, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote:


Hi again. I'm going to try my luck one more time and ask for some
more advice on this!

Alf's suggestions upthread all worked swimmingly, but I'm left with
one thing that I can't quite work out.

The actual template is intended as a wrapper for the ciphers in
LibTomCrypt[1], and one of the things I need to do is find out the
'index' of a particular cipher by passing the cipher name as a string
to a helper function. Here's what I've got so far with Alf's help:

//--------------------- ltc.h START------------------------
#include "tomcrypt.h"

/* Our abstract base class */
class AbstractCipher
{
public:
  virtual ~AbstractCipher() {}
  virtual int setup (const uint8_t* key, int keylen) = 0;
  virtual int ecb_encrypt (const uint8_t *ptext, uint8_t* ctext) = 0;
  virtual int ecb_decrypt (const uint8_t *ctext, uint8_t* ptext) = 0;
  virtual int test () = 0;
  virtual int keysize (int* keysize) = 0;
  virtual void done () = 0;
  virtual int index () = 0;
};

/* Our functors */
struct CFunctionTypes
{
  typedef int (*Setup)
    (const uint_8t* key, int keylen, int rounds, symmetric_key* skey);
  typedef int (*ECBencrypt)
    (const uint8_t *ptext, uint8_t* ctext, symmetric_key* skey);
  typedef int (*ECBdecrypt)
    (const uint8_t *ctext, uint8_t* ptext, symmetric_key* skey);
  typedef int (*Test)
    ();
  typedef int (*Keysize)
    (int* keysize);
  typedef void (*Done)
    (symmetric_key* skey);
};

/* Now specialise the functors for each cipher */
struct AESCipher:CFunctionTypes
{
  static Setup const setup;
  static ECBencrypt const ecb_encrypt;
  static ECBdecrypt const ecb_decrypt;
  static Test const test;
  static Keysize const keysize;
  static Done const done;
  AESCipher() { register_cipher(&aes_desc); index =
find_cipher("aes");}
  ~AESCipher() { unregister_cipher(&aes_desc); }

  int index;
};

CFunctionTypes::Setup const AESCipher::setup = &aes_setup;
CFunctionTypes::ECBencrypt const AESCipher::ecb_encrypt =
&aes_ecb_encrypt;
CFunctionTypes::ECBdecrypt const AESCipher::ecb_decrypt =
&aes_ecb_decrypt;
CFunctionTypes::Test const AESCipher::test = &aes_test;
CFunctionTypes::Keysize const AESCipher::keysize =
&aes_keysize;
CFunctionTypes::Done const AESCipher::done = &aes_done;

struct TwofishCipher:CFunctionTypes
{
  static Setup const setup;
  static ECBencrypt const ecb_encrypt;
  static ECBdecrypt const ecb_decrypt;
  static Test const test;
  static Keysize const keysize;
  static Done const done;
  TwofishCipher() { register_cipher(&twofish_desc); index =
find_cipher("twofish");}
  ~TwofishCipher() { unregister_cipher(&twofish_desc); }

  int index;
};

CFunctionTypes::Setup const TwofishCipher::setup =
&twofish_setup;
CFunctionTypes::ECBencrypt const TwofishCipher::ecb_encrypt =
&twofish_ecb_encrypt;
CFunctionTypes::ECBdecrypt const TwofishCipher::ecb_decrypt =
&twofish_ecb_decrypt;
CFunctionTypes::Test const TwofishCipher::test =
&twofish_test;
CFunctionTypes::Keysize const TwofishCipher::keysize =
&twofish_keysize;
CFunctionTypes::Done const TwofishCipher::done =
&twofish_done;

template < class CFunctions > class Cipher : public AbstractCipher
{
public:
  Cipher () : skey() {}

  virtual int setup (const uint_8t* key, int keylen)
  { return CFunctions::setup (key, keylen, 0, &skey); }

  virtual int ecb_encrypt (const uint8_t *ptext, uint8_t* ctext)
  { return CFunctions::ecb_encrypt (ptext, ctext, &skey); }

  virtual int ecb_decrypt (const uint8_t *ctext, uint8_t* ptext)
  { return CFunctions::ecb_decrypt (ctext, ptext, &skey); }

  virtual int test ()
  { return CFunctions::test(); }

  virtual int keysize (int* keysize)
  { return CFunctions::keysize(keysize); }

  virtual int index()
  { return CFunctions::index; }

  virtual ~Cipher ()
  { CFunctions::done (&skey); }

protected:
    symmetric_key skey;
};

typedef Cipher < AESCipher > AES;
typedef Cipher < TwofishCipher > Twofish;

//--------------------- ltc.h END------------------------
//--------------------- x.cc BEGIN-----------------------
#include <iostream>
#include "ltc.h"

int main()
{
  AES aes;
  std::cerr << "AES.index() = " << aes.index();
  return 0;
}

//--------------------- x.cc END-------------------------

Now you can probably see what I'm trying to do with this 'index' call;
it has to return the result of find_cipher("ciphername"). The problem
is that at compile time, I get the following error:

ltc.h: In member function 'int Cipher<CFunctions>::index() [with
CFunctions = AESCipher]':
x.cc:47: instantiated from here
ltc.h:40: error: object missing in reference to 'AESCipher::index'
ltc.h:93: error: from this location

I can't see what it is that's missing. If someone can clarify, or
even better, show me a better way to do what I'm trying to do, I'd be
grateful. Meanwhile, I'm learning a _lot_ doing this stuff!