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diff --git a/pipermail/pycrypto/2010q4/000357.html b/pipermail/pycrypto/2010q4/000357.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ccb9ff6 --- /dev/null +++ b/pipermail/pycrypto/2010q4/000357.html @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [pycrypto] Things that go bump in the night (qNEW) + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:pycrypto%40lists.dlitz.net?Subject=%5Bpycrypto%5D%20Things%20that%20go%20bump%20in%20the%20night%20%28qNEW%29&In-Reply-To="> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="000362.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="000361.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[pycrypto] Things that go bump in the night (qNEW)</H1> + <B>Thorsten Behrens</B> + <A HREF="mailto:pycrypto%40lists.dlitz.net?Subject=%5Bpycrypto%5D%20Things%20that%20go%20bump%20in%20the%20night%20%28qNEW%29&In-Reply-To=" + TITLE="[pycrypto] Things that go bump in the night (qNEW)">sbehrens at gmx.li + </A><BR> + <I>Wed Dec 29 21:55:41 CST 2010</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000362.html">[pycrypto] Wanted: Additional unit tests for Python 3.x porting effort +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000361.html">[pycrypto] Comments on Elgamal, and a broader question: Whither pycrypto? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#357">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#357">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#357">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#357">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>I've been looking at the functions that don't have unit tests, among +them PublicKey/qNEW. It puzzled me for a bit - qNEW is not an algorithm +I know, can successfully google for, or find in other crypto packages. +Looking at the source, though, it seems to be a cousin of DSA, with a +few differences in the fundamentals (bit sizes of q and p, for one), and +a lot of differences in the specifics. + +I am not going to write any unit tests for qNEW. + +It may be a DSA-variant, in which case it is covered already by DSA.py. +Or it may be a DSA-derivative that's never been standardized, and thus +scrutinized, and if that's true, then it should just be stricken from +the code. Given that there's really no documentation on it either in the +package or anywhere, I'd wager beer that it's not in serious use +anywhere, anyway. + +Thorsten + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000362.html">[pycrypto] Wanted: Additional unit tests for Python 3.x porting effort +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000361.html">[pycrypto] Comments on Elgamal, and a broader question: Whither pycrypto? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#357">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#357">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#357">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#357">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="http://lists.dlitz.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pycrypto">More information about the pycrypto +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |