The Algorithm Chooser
minimal footprint. If an application only performs encryption, it may use an algorithm chooser with only the encrypt method to prevent the linker from linking in the object code for decryption.
Note: Early versions of Crypto-C offered optimized AMs for some algorithms on selected platforms. For instance, when employing RSA public encryption, there were: AM_RSA_ENCRYPT, AM_RSA_ENCRYPT_68 for the MPW compiler on 68K machines, and AM_RSA_ENCRYPT_86 for the Microsoft compiler on x86 platforms. In versions 3.0 and later, the optimized code for a particular algorithm, when available, is automatically linked in with the standard AM. So although it is no longer necessary to specify an optimized AM to link in optimized code, the old AM-specific optimized code is still valid.
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