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+ Thorsten Behrens

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+<PRE>The survey has been changed, those changes and additions are in.

+I'd like to hold off on adding any more questions to the survey at this

+point. I don't want to turn people off by taking too much of their time.

+On 1/9/2011 1:37 PM, Legrandin wrote:

+> Hi Thorsten,

+>

+> Good idea.

+>

+> In the library list, replace radio button with checkboxes: one might

+> be using more than one.The widely used M2crypto is also missing.

+>

+> I would personally like to know whether library users are interesting

+> in crypto primitives

+> a) to be natively compiled to be as fast as they can be, even at the

+> cost of portability (e.g. requiring external libraries)

+> b) to be natively compiled to be moderately fast, provided that the

+> library is self-contained

+> c) to be in pure Python, even at the cost of speed

+> d) to be available in all forms above, opportunistically selected in

+> order a->b-c depending on the target environment

+>

+> It's also interesting to know - in case of external libraries being

+> used - how important the library license (LGPL, GPL, BSD, etc) and the

+> source code language (C, C++, assembly) are.

+>

+> Finally, I would structure the second page differently. Instead of a

+> list of primitives, I would have categories like

+> - Widely used and secure crypto primitives (AES, 3DES, RSA, DSA, SHA-2, etc)

+> - Widely used but known-to-have-a-problem crypto primitives (MD5, DES,

+> RC2, RC4, SHA-1, etc)

+> - Seldom used but secure crypto primitives (Blowfish, Camellia, etc)

+> - Useful, ad-hoc low-level algorithms which can be non-secure if you

+> don't know what you are going (El Gamal, qNew, etc)

+> - Widely used and secure higher-level protocols (e.g. PKCS#1 signature

+> and encryption, HMAC, etc)

+>

+> Legrandin

+>

+> 2011/1/7 Thorsten Behrens<<A HREF="http://lists.dlitz.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pycrypto">sbehrens at gmx.li</A>>:

+>> Hello folk,

+>>

+>> I had an idea: How about we find out who uses pycrypto, and how, and

+>> what they would like to see in future versions?

+>>

+>> This might be quite helpful in deciding the direction pycrypto

+>> development should take. I figured I'd ask for participation on

+>> python-discuss and python-crypto, and hope that no-one is going to take

+>> that as an invitation to try and bring my web server down.

+>>

+>> I've put a quick sample survey up at:

+>> <A HREF="http://pycrypto-survey.warshaft.com/index.php?sid=96342&newtest=Y&lang=en">http://pycrypto-survey.warshaft.com/index.php?sid=96342&newtest=Y&lang=en</A>

+>>

+>> Please take a look and let me know:

+>>

+>> - Whether you think a survey is a good idea in the first place

+>> - And if so, which changes if any you'd like to see made to the survey

+>> before it is activated and throw to the Python masses

+>>

+>> Thanks!

+>> Thorsten

+>>

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