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Trevor Perrin trevp at trevp.net
Sun Feb 29 18:01:38 EST 2004 
Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:<7xllmnaub3.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>...
> trevp at trevp.net (Trevor Perrin) writes:
> > > Did you ever look at the key management scheme I circulated a while
> > > back?  Is it the kind of thing anyone cares about?
> [...]
> http://www.nightsong.com/phr/crypto/crypto.txt

I like the ideas about key protection.  It's a higher-level API then I
have a need for, though.  I'd just like to see a few fast primitives
in stdlib.


> > (aside from ciphers and RNGs, the other thing on my wish-list is
> > faster modular exponentiation..  Python use a simple right-to-left
> > square-and-multiply.  I'm no expert here, but I think it would be
> > pretty easy to make that a few times faster for crypto sized numbers. 
> > tlslite's handshaking, in python code, is ~5x slower than OpenSSL
> > right now..)
> 
> Use gmpy, http://gmpy.sf.net

That's another couple modules users have to install though (GMPY and
GMP).  I was thinking the current pow() implementation could be
optimized a bit.

Trevor
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