One thing that -- I think -- is missing from most of those crypto 
implementations is the ability to scale down below secure thresholds, i.e., 
to use toy cipher variants. As we are not interested in productivity crypto 
but in research that would be very valuable. So reduced round/blocksize 
variants would be really, really cool.

Also, as the hash competition is coming up implementing many currently 
discussed 'provable secure' hash functions could be a good idea.

Anyway, +1 for attempting to improve SAGE with respect to crypto.

Martin

PS: I am working on some block cipher implementations too, but mainly to 
generate polynomial systems for them. But these should be integrated with the 
general crypto package stuff, I guess.

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