[pycrypto] Wanted: Additional unit tests for Python 3.x porting effort

[Paul Koning]

If I remember right, some versions of pgp used ElGamal, so that might serve as an open reference implementation.  Not as good as test vectors but it's a widely used implementation.

	paul

On Dec 31, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Michael Rodler wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'd volunteer to write the unit test for ElGamal, but since ElGamal is
> not standardized, it's pretty hard to find any public test vectors.
> (quick google search reveals nothing) So you probably need to generate
> them yourself and I'm not sure how to do that properly. (generate using
> another library i.e. bouncycastle or using some algebra system i.e.
> Mathematica, which is probably less error prone?)
> 
> If anyone can point me into the right direction, I'd be happy to help.
> (Obviously not today, so cheers and happy new year ;)
> 
> Michael
> 
> On 2010-12-31 06:11, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
>> Crypto.Random.random has unit tests now. A few notes on that:
>>     - random.shuffle() was broken, it had a TypeError and an 
>> IndexError. Not my doing, that's always been the case. That's been fixed.
>>     - random.sample() does not work on 2.1. Not my doing, that's always 
>> been the case. I will not fix this. Others are welcome to.
>>     - random does not implement the full compliment of functions that 
>> Python offers, it is a much smaller subset
>>     - I somehow doubt anyone ever actually used this interface. We may 
>> declare it "static for backwards compatibility" and leave well enough alone.
>> 
>> I will not write unit tests for qNEW, though others are welcome to.
>> 
>> We still need unit tests for ElGamal and AllOrNothing. Anyone?
>> 
>> Thorsten
>> 
>> On 12/29/2010 4:28 PM, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
>>> Now that we have a working pycrypto on Python 3.x, it's time to see what
>>> we don't have unit tests for. See
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/pycrypto/+bug/335995 for results.
>>> 
>>> Currently, the following are not included in unit testing at all:
>>> 
>>> Protocol/AllOrNothing
>>> PublicKey/ElGamal
>>> PublicKey/qNEW
>>> random/random
>>> 
>>> I'd love some unit tests for those. With public test vectors, please,
>>> not test vectors derived from pycrypto.
>>> 
>>> Volunteers?
>>> 
>>> Thorsten
>>> 
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