On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Martin Albrecht <martinralbre...@googlemail.com> 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.
Even if you implement one of these, you might want to be able to very easily compare your implementation against one that actually works. > Put another way: did anybody on this list ever use it? I think I may have once > briefly. I have used it dozens of times in a teaching context (for undergrads). -- William > > Cheers, > Martin > > > -- > name: Martin Albrecht > _pgp: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6532AFB4 > _otr: 47F43D1A 5D68C36F 468BAEBA 640E8856 D7951CCF > _www: http://martinralbrecht.wordpress.com/ > _jab: martinralbre...@jabber.ccc.de -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- 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.
