Re: New pycrypto release?
Paul Swartz <[email protected]>
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On 16 Feb 2003 at 23:22, Michael Ströder wrote:
> Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> >
> > I am the Debian maintainer of the pycrypto package, and got request
> > for a new upstream release of it, since users claim that CVS is much
> > faster than pycrypto-1.9a4.tar.gz. What do you think about that?
>
> Maybe these users compile the CVS version from source with optimization
> flags specific to their platform?
I'm one of these users, and it's because there are
now C modules that can be compiled that speed up
RSA and DSA operations. These are only in CVS as
far as I know.
Also, I noticed that the download link from
http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html gives a
403 Forbidden error, but that's unrelated. :)
-p
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