PyCrypto dependancy about paramiko HOT 4 CLOSED

I would accept a patch to allow paramiko to use an alternate library! it doesn't really care where the crypto lives.

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Indeed, it s an idea, i was more thinking of fixing the doc. But why not, it ll probably be slower.

The main problem i see is now where to found such lib, i didn't see any advanced like pycripto is, implementation in pure python. From a fast cat/grep analyse the following algo are used :
DES3 (pyDES can do it), Blowfish (py-bcrypt seems to do it), AES (should not be to difficult to write a slow one), ARC4
(cryptopy seems to support it (but look like unmaintained).

So maybe it s time for me to write a pure python implementation of the part use by paramiko :)

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i have a pure-python AES implementation here: www.lag.net/aes.py
...which you are free to use. :)

(i would add some unit tests before using it, tho.)

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Of course, doing such thing require tdd.

I'll add it to my project list and be back soon, as pycrypto dependancy is a problem for one of my project.

Thx

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