Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: geesefly
Version: 0.4.1
Summary: Pure Python implementation of Skein and Threefish
Home-page: http://code.google.com/p/geeseflypy/
Author: Jonathan Bowman
Author-email: bowmanjd@gmail.com
License: Apache License, Version 2.0
Description: # geesefly Mirror
        
        This is my mirror of Jonathan Bowman's geesefly.py, and made
        available in pip.
        
        ## Installation
        
        To install from pip:
        
            $ pip install geesefly
        
        ## About
        
        geesefly.py is a pure Python implementation of the Skein hash function
        and Threefish tweakable block cipher. It also includes a pseudo-random
        number generator based on Skein, and Cipher-Block Chaining (CBC) based
        functionality for encrypting variable-length data.
        
        geesefly.py is slow.  If you want a high-performance Python
        implementation of Skein and Threefish, I highly recommend PySkein,
        available at http://packages.python.org/pyskein/
        
        In PySkein, the heavy lifting is done in compiled C, and hashes data
        at a much faster rate than geesefly.py.
        
        In contrast, this module is written in pure Python. While slow, it is
        useful for applications where compiling a Python C extension is
        unfeasible, such as Google's App Engine.
        
        You also may find the geesefly.py code helpful in understanding Skein
        and Threefish.
        
        geesefly.py works with Python version 2.5 or later. This includes
        version 3 and up.
        
        Skein is a hash function submitted to NIST for their cryptographic hash
        algorithm competition. Skein is designed by Niels Ferguson, Stefan Lucks,
        Bruce Schneier, Doug Whiting, Mihir Bellare, Tadayoshi Kohno, Jon
        Callas, and Jesse Walker
        
        More information is available at http://www.skein-hash.info/
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Information Technology
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.0
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1
Classifier: Topic :: Security :: Cryptography
