fec-0.1: Forward error correction of ByteStringsSource codeContentsIndex
Codec.FEC
Stabilityexperimental
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Utility functions
Description

The module provides k of n encoding - a way to generate (n - k) secondary blocks of data from k primary blocks such that any k blocks (primary or secondary) are sufficient to regenerate all blocks.

All blocks must be the same length and you need to keep track of which blocks you have in order to tell decode. By convention, the blocks are numbered 0..(n - 1) and blocks numbered < k are the primary blocks.

Synopsis
data FECParams
fec :: Int -> Int -> FECParams
encode :: FECParams -> [ByteString] -> [ByteString]
decode :: FECParams -> [(Int, ByteString)] -> [ByteString]
secureDivide :: Int -> ByteString -> IO [ByteString]
secureCombine :: [ByteString] -> ByteString
enFEC :: Int -> Int -> ByteString -> [ByteString]
deFEC :: Int -> Int -> [ByteString] -> ByteString
Documentation
data FECParams Source
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fecSource
:: Intthe number of primary blocks
-> Intthe total number blocks, must be < 256
-> FECParams
Return a FEC with the given parameters.
encodeSource
:: FECParams
-> [ByteString]a list of k input blocks
-> [ByteString](n - k) output blocks
Generate the secondary blocks from a list of the primary blocks. The primary blocks must be in order and all of the same size. There must be k primary blocks.
decodeSource
:: FECParams
-> [(Int, ByteString)]a list of k blocks and their index
-> [ByteString]a list the k primary blocks
Recover the primary blocks from a list of k blocks. Each block must be tagged with its number (see the module comments about block numbering)
Utility functions
secureDivideSource
:: Intthe number of parts requested
-> ByteStringthe data to be split
-> IO [ByteString]

Break a ByteString into n parts, equal in length to the original, such that all n are required to reconstruct the original, but having less than n parts reveals no information about the orginal.

This code works in IO monad because it needs a source of random bytes, which it gets from devurandom. If this file doesn't exist an exception results

Not terribly fast - probably best to do it with short inputs (e.g. an encryption key)

secureCombine :: [ByteString] -> ByteStringSource
Reverse the operation of secureDivide. The order of the inputs doesn't matter, but they must all be the same length
enFECSource
:: Intthe number of blocks required to reconstruct
-> Intthe total number of blocks
-> ByteStringthe data to divide
-> [ByteString]the resulting blocks
A utility function which takes an arbitary input and FEC encodes it into a number of blocks. The order the resulting blocks doesn't matter so long as you have enough to present to deFEC.
deFECSource
:: Intthe number of blocks required (matches call to enFEC)
-> Intthe total number of blocks (matches call to enFEC)
-> [ByteString]a list of k, or more, blocks from enFEC
-> ByteString
Reverses the operation of enFEC.
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