awesome-wav 1.1.0

I am pleased to announce the release of awesome-wav 1.1.0. This is an intermediary release that mostly adds new features and fixes a few small bugs in behavior.

There are two major changes in this release. The first is supporting compression with quicklz as well as zlib, with options to not include zlib compression. This decreases compression time, though increases file-size by a bit. The other significant change is allowing wav files with unknown wav chunks. The current implementation just discards the unknown chunks, something that will be changed by the next major release.

This release also fixes various behavior bugs and will allow the chunks of the riff file to be read in any order instead of a fixed order.

awesome-wav 1.0.1

I am pleased to announce the release of awesome-wav 1.0.1. This is primarily a bug-fix release, fixing issues with wav file validation and a few other random minor bugs. This release also includes the somehow forgotten --version argument.

the argument processor was also back-ported from the under-development 1.1/1.2/1.5 code as it is a little more flexible and includes some other various code modifications that have no effect on the actual operation of the program.

cmake

I've been working on adding cmake as an option to assist with building awesome-wav. Currently the only target that works right (only been tested by me on Debian Squeeze) seems to work right at the moment.

If anyone would like to test it on mac os or windows, that would be greatly appreciated, and input on improving the CMakeLists.txt file would be appreciated as well.

How AES Encyption Works

I was doing some research a couple of days ago and I found a very nice visualization of the Rijndael Cipher. It was chosen as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.