Opened at 2009-03-02T22:05:35Z
Last modified at 2013-09-30T13:48:32Z
#15 closed enhancement
salsa20 — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | zooko | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
| Version: | 0.5.1 | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | Launchpad Bug: |
Description
Salsa20 is a stream cipher design by Daniel J. Bernstein that is significantly more efficient and perhaps safer than AES.
On the other hand, it might not turn out to be safer than AES.
Here's a patch (not very much tested, I think), which adds Salsa20 to pycryptopp.
By the way, DJB's ChaChaCha? is almost certainly slightly safer and certainly slightly faster than his Salsa20, but Crypto++ doesn't implement ChaChaCha? yet.
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add Salsa20