Pure Python HTTPS Server
Paul Rubin
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Sat Feb 28 14:16:32 EST 2004
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?
>
> I didn't see that. I did see that you've talked about a stdlib
> interface to OS-level Random Number Generators, like /dev/urandom and
> CryptGenRandom. I think that's an excellent idea.
http://www.nightsong.com/phr/crypto/crypto.txt
But I want to change it some, to use standard ciphers.
> (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
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