1  #+TITLE: Story 20 - Le'Sec, the application library
 2  #+OPTIONS: author:nil date:nil
 3  #+LANGUAGE: en
 4  #+CATEGORY: lesec
 5  
 6  Let's talk about Le'Sec!
 7  
 8  This is a toolkit, both a higher level application library and a set of
 9  command line tools.  So far, it has grown organically, specifically to be make
10  a tool to interact with a cryptography plugin through Le'Sec Core.  It's
11  currently very small, so the design has been able to remain fairly consistent.
12  
13  * Le'Sec application library
14  
15  Le'Sec's has a single routine library, generally called ~liblesec~ (on Unix,
16  it would have been fun to call it ~libesec~, to allow linking with ~-lesec~,
17  but I'm choosing not to to avoid confusion).
18  
19  Symbol names in ~liblesec~ all start with ~LeSec_~, with the rest of the name
20  in lower case.  Quite a few symbols are just aliases of Le'Sec Core symbols,
21  which allows them to change in the future without having to change Le'Sec
22  Core.  It's therefore preferable that applications use symbol names starting
23  with ~LeSec_~ rather than with ~LSC_~.
24  
25  * Le'Sec tools
26  
27  Two tools are currently being developed:
28  
29  - ~lesec-tool~, which is a generic tool to interact with a plugin.  It's
30    developed in parallel with the development of the libtomcrypt plugin, among
31    others to test that the plugin is working as intended.
32  - ~lesec-speed~, which is a generic tool to benchmark the algorithm
33    implementations in a plugin.  This is currently in very early development.