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[Python-Dev] PEP 427 comment: code signing

Daniel Holth dholth at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 02:42:35 CEST 2012 
You could just include a different algorithm. He meant that the speed of
ed25519 is not an advantage in this use case. Did I mention that its c
implementation has defense against timing attacks?
On Oct 22, 2012 8:24 PM, "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

> martin at v.loewis.de writes:
>
>  > Instead, the primary reason for not choosing cryptography is
> ease-of-use.
>  >
>  > For that reason, I still think that using an established algorithm would
>  > be the better choice.
>
> I don't understand this.  An established algorithm might be
> cryptographically safer, but what could be easier to use than the
> default algorithm that is built-in?
>
>
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