On Wednesday, December 25, 2013 7:58:27 PM UTC+1, Martin Albrecht wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 Dec 2013 09:09:58 Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > > I think having pycrypto in Sage is cool for ... cryptographers :) > > I am not sure this is true. PyCrypto is quite high-level, it gives you > RSA, > AES, SHA256 and sutff like that. At such a high level I guess it would be > useful for testing/implementing protocols, but for the kind of crypto > where > Sage is probably used most - i.e. actually diving into the algorithms - I > don't think it's that useful. > > Put another way: did anybody on this list ever use it? I think I may have > once > briefly.
I think it can also be quite useful for teaching as well when you want to jump from more crypto oriented to more math oriented stuff. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
