<div>Hello, everyone:</div>
<div> I am a student who is lucky to be choosed as one of this year's gsoc students. My name is Yu Xue. Next week the gsoc will start. My gsoc project is "100 year cryptography". This project's main purpose is to implement some combiners of cryptographic algorithms. The first part is combiner of ciphers. In this phase, I will write the documents and API, write test harness including unit tests, tests vectors etc, and implement the combiner of block cipher based on the test cases which is mainly comber of AES using CTR mode and XSalsa20. The second part is combiner of hash function---Comb4P which has three round feistel and the round function is composed of xoring of H0 and H1 with the help of round index i. The above two parts is the main task. There are some interesting bonus parts that we can do after that, e.x. combiner of signature algorithm, a draft submitted to the ietf giving a complete specification of Com4P.</div>
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<div> Recently I used the pycryptopp unit test tool. At first I built the pycryptopp on windows with vs compiler, it seemed fail. Maybe it is about the compiler reason just similar as the previous situation that I met when built tahoe. Then I tried to use cygwin. This time it seemd ok. I tried several commands. when using "./setup.py test" it said "Ran 31 tests in 2.943s OK" at the last lines. And I tried to use the AES unit test souce code at the site. when using "python testaes.py", it said "Ran 9 tests in 0.249s OK".</div>
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<div> Welcome the suggestions and instructions about the project :) Thank all of you !</div>
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<div> Regards </div>
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<div> Yu Xue<br clear="all"><br>-- <br> 此致<br>敬礼!<br> 薛宇<br> <br> 身前身后<br> 是时间的深渊<br></div>