[pycrypto] ANN: PyCrypto 2.2 released

[David MacQuigg]

Many thanks to all.  This is an excellent package, well-suited for a  
class in cryptography.

I have some questions about the migration to 3.x, and I apologize if I 
missed this in the earlier discussions on this list.  Is this really 
hard to do, or is it just not worth the effort?  Is there something 
about PyCrypto, compared to other packages, making the migration more 
difficult. 

I have no prejudice one way or the other as to whether PyCrypto should 
make a big effort in migration.  I have both 2.7 and 3.1 on my Mac, and 
it looks like 2.7 will be around for many more years.

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Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
> PyCrypto 2.2 has been released.
>
> This release remains compatible with Python 2.1 through 2.6.  (Python 
> 3.x is not yet supported.)  A C99 compiler may be required.
>
> You can download this release from http://www.pycrypto.org/, you can 
> ask for it in the cheeseshop, and it has the following SHA256 sums:
>
> 9219449bc85ab4f4ff61fc83b0cbe0ec23d46943caab3d5413c6ba52da6f922c 
> *pycrypto-2.2.tar.gz
> 0168719105999133374f995bdc9fa6a1be2de65b2ae359eb8e5ef9f433f66af5 
> *pycrypto-2.2.tar.gz.asc
>
> Please test it and post your experiences to the PyCrypto mailing list:
>
>     pycrypto at lists.dlitz.net
>
> and/or file bug reports on Launchpad:
>
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/pycrypto
>
> Here is the changelog:
>
>   - Deprecated Crypto.Util.number.getRandomNumber(), which had confusing
>     semantics.  It's been replaced by getRandomNBitInteger and
>     getRandomInteger.  (Thanks: Lorenz Quack)
>
>   - Better isPrime() and getPrime() implementations that do a real
>     Rabin-Miller probabilistic primality test (not the phony test we did
>     before with fixed bases).  (Thanks: Lorenz Quack)
>
>   - getStrongPrime() implementation for generating RSA primes.
>     (Thanks: Lorenz Quack)
>
>   - Support for importing and exporting RSA keys in DER and PEM format.
>     (Thanks: Legrandin)
>
>   - Fix PyCrypto when floor division (python -Qnew) is enabled.
>
>   - When building using gcc, use -std=c99 for compilation.  This should
>     fix building on FreeBSD and NetBSD.
>
> Thanks to everyone who helped make this release possible!
>
> Cheers,
> - Dwayne
>
> -- 
> Dwayne C. Litzenberger <dlitz at dlitz.net>
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