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Consider replacing PyCrypto with PyCryptodome #402

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sbellem opened this issue Nov 30, 2019 · 1 comment
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Consider replacing PyCrypto with PyCryptodome #402

sbellem opened this issue Nov 30, 2019 · 1 comment
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sbellem commented Nov 30, 2019 •
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PyCryptodome can be used as: an almost drop-in replacement for the old PyCrypto library

PyCrytpo's development momentum seems to be paused since 2014; 58 pull requests currently open, 136 open issues. Currently fails for Python 3.8 because of its usage of time.clock -- trivial to fix though: pycrypto/pycrypto#296).

All in all, PyCryptodome appears to be a better option.

As a note: PyCrytpodome has an implementation of Shamir's Secret Sharing: https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome/blob/master/lib/Crypto/Protocol/SecretSharing.py.
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Yes, we are already made this transition from pycryptodome to pycrypto for Crypto course this year.

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