[tahoe-dev] announcing pycryptopp v0.6.0.1206569328141510525648634803928199668821045408958

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

Folks:

Here is the new release of pycryptopp:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycryptopp

It has Ed25519 signatures, using Python wrappers written by Brian
Warner in his "python-ed25519" project and C code written by Daniel J.
Bernstein in his "supercop" project. It also has XSalsa20 cipher,
using Python wrappers written by Yu Xue and Brian Warner for the
Crypto++ implementation of XSalsa20 written by Wei Dai. There are a
few other improvements, listed below (from the ChangeLog).

It has come to my attention that "pycryptopp" is a *terrible* name for
a Python crypto library, since people confuse it with "pycrypto". I
intend to change the name soon. I'm currently toying with idea of
naming it "zcryptopy", pronounced "zkripTOPpy".

Bug reports welcome! Please open tickets on the trac --
https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp -- or write to this mailing
list.

Special thanks to Brian Warner for doing a lot of the work to produce
this release.

Regards,

Zooko

2012-03-13  Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn  <zooko at zooko.com>

      • src/pycryptopp/_version.py: release pycryptopp-0.6.0
      • add Ed25519 signatures (#75)
      • add XSalsa20 cipher (#40)
      • switch from darcs to git for revision control
      • pycryptopp version numbers now include a decimal encoding of …
      • reorganize the source tree and the version number generation
      • aesmodule.cpp: validate size of IV and throw exception if it
is not 16 (#70)
      • fixed compile errors with gcc-4.7.0 (#78)
      • fixed compile errors concerning "CryptoPP::g_nullNameValuePairs" (#77)
      • suppress warnings from valgrind with new OpenSSL 1.0.1 on Fedora (#82)
      • raise Python exception instead of uncaught C++ exception
        (resulting in abort) when deserializing malformed RSA keys (#83)