Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

En Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:29:49 -0200, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> En Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:29:58 -0200, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> escribió: >>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >>> Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL P

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Rubin wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: >> >> Is there some reason you're using exaggerated language? My only >> point is that simply saying "C compiler! C compiler!" ignores the fact >> that Python itself is multi-platform

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: > Is there some reason you're using exaggerated language? My only > point is that simply saying "C compiler! C compiler!" ignores the fact > that Python itself is multi-platform (and makes you look foolish); > whether any given module should be written in pure P

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >En Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:29:58 -0200, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >> Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> En Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:34:30 -0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> e

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

And FWIW there already exists a pySalsa20, a ctypes wrapper for Bernstein's eSTREAM submission. http://www.seanet.com/~bugbee/crypto/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

En Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:29:58 -0200, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> En Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:34:30 -0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> escribió: >>> On 8 Feb., 17:18, Paul Rubin wrote:

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >En Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:34:30 -0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> On 8 Feb., 17:18, Paul Rubin wrote: >>> >>> I don't understand why a pure python version of salsa20 would be >>> interesting.

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

Gabriel Genellina: > On most platforms -with a notable exception- there is a C compiler > available as a standard tool, which is used to compile Python itself. For that platform the Python site may offer a version of binary Python bundled with the MingGW (and Cython too, maybe), like ShedSkin does

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

"Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On most platforms -with a notable exception- there is a C compiler > available as a standard tool, which is used to compile Python itself. The notable exception that you're thinking of is pervasive, but since Python is usually distributed as a bina

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The reason for a pure python is that it would be independent from the > platform. A C implementation is faster, but you need to compile it for > every platform. A python implementation doesn't have that problem and > could be used to fall back upon. But why salsa20 in t

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

En Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:34:30 -0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On 8 Feb., 17:18, Paul Rubin wrote: >> I don't understand why a pure python version of salsa20 would be >> interesting. Is there some application that uses salsa20, that's >> worth being able to interop

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

On 8 Feb., 17:18, Paul Rubin wrote: > I don't understand why a pure python version of salsa20 would be > interesting. Is there some application that uses salsa20, that's > worth being able to interoperate with in pure python? The reason for a pure python is that it woul

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > for those of you who are familiar with the micropledge.com project, > here is a good opportunity to spend or earn something: > http://micropledge.com/projects/pysalsa20 By the way, here is a concise implementation of salsa20 in C: http://www.nightsong.com/phr/crypto/

Re: Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > for those of you who are familiar with the micropledge.com project, > here is a good opportunity to spend or earn something: > http://micropledge.com/projects/pysalsa20 I don't understand why a pure python version of salsa20 would be interesting. Is there some applicat

Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

Hi Folks, for those of you who are familiar with the micropledge.com project, here is a good opportunity to spend or earn something: http://micropledge.com/projects/pysalsa20 I know that the details of this project are still a bit unclear, but that is something we could discuss. By the way, the e