[tahoe-dev] signed Introducer messages, server-selection work

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Brian Warner <warner at lothar.com> wrote:
>
> [1]: http://github.com/warner/python-ecdsa  is a pure-python ECDSA
>     library. It runs about 40x slower than Crypto++ would, though:
>     256-bit-keys take 300ms/110ms/220ms to create/sign/verify. So I'd
>     still really like http://allmydata.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/30
>     to be fixed.

Nice work!

I might like to adopt that Python code into pycryptopp and maintain
both pure-Python and Crypto++-based implementations.

On the other hand, I'm super-excited about the Merkle-Signature-Scheme
that David-Sarah reminded us of recently...

http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~dahmen/papers/hashbasedcrypto.pdf

https://www.minicrypt.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/reports/reports/REDBP08.pdf

Regards,

Zooko