[mnet-devel] Ditching crypto++ for pycrypto (fwd)

[Eugen Leitl]

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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:25:39 -0500
From: Zooko <zooko at zooko.com>
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To: mnet-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [mnet-devel] Ditching crypto++ for pycrypto 


I have to admit that Crypto++'s build/port problems suck, a lot.  I still have a 
weird fondness for it (Stockholm Syndrome?).

One feature is that Crypto++ is going to be adopted by the OSAF, which means it 
will be supported even better than it is now (including new Python wrappers), 
and might also mean that OSAF would throw money at someone who maintained good 
Python wrappers for them.

Requirements for backwards compatibility with v0.6:

 * DES-X, CTS mode (Hal Finney has contributed a patch that will implement this 
   on OpenSSL)
 * RSA, OAEP (we have OAEP, or something much like it, implemented in Python)
 ?

Things I want in the future:

 * Rijndael
 * CBC mode
 * SHA-1 (provided in Python Standard Library, of course, but using the crypto 
   libraries version might be faster due to closer binding to other crypto 
   computations)
 * SHA-512
 * Rizzo's forward erasure code (Wei Dai has said he would consider integrating 
   it with Crypto++ and supporting it, but again it doesn't *need* to be part of 
   the crypto library)
 * integration with system random pools

--Z



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