Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

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On 8 Feb., 17:18, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> I don't understand why a pure python version of salsa20 would be
> interesting.  Is there some application that uses salsa20, that's
> worth being able to interoperate with in pure python?

The reason for a pure python is that it would be independent from the
platform. A C implementation is faster, but you need to compile it for
every platform. A python implementation doesn't have that problem and
could be used to fall back upon.