Re: How to send a query to the browser from time to time?

2005-07-19 Thread phr
Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If there were a way to have the server-side application send new > messages to the browser this would be awesome because it would save > dramatically on bandwidth. The application would consume bandwidth > only when there are new messages. There would be no co

Re: Who should security issues be reported to?

2005-01-28 Thread phr
Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is that the sound of a volunteer I hear? > > All you have to do is put your hand up, and the problem will be > solved. If not you, who? Tell me about it. See the "rotor replacement" thread. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Elliptic Code

2005-01-28 Thread phr
"Philip Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have/know of a python implementation of the elliptic curve > factoring algorithm (lenstra) which is both: > > simply and cleanly coded > functional It's not in Python but take a look at Mike Scott's C++ implementation in MIRACL, http:/

Re: Please suggest on the book to follow

2005-01-27 Thread phr
"santanu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know a little python (not the OOP part) learnt by studying the online > tutorial. Now I would like to learn it more thoroughly. I think there's supposed to be a new version of Python in a Nutshell coming. That's a more serious book than Learning Python. -

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-27 Thread phr
Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> As long as we are discussing cryptography, what's wrong with > >> m2crypto? Or, what about Andrew Kuchling's crypto toolkit? > > Lucas> Umm, is it just me or did we just discuss the legal issues of > Lucas> that?? > > You may have.

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-27 Thread phr
Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > phr> It is not a whizbang module. It is a stripped-down, basic > phr> implementation of a well-accepted set of standards that are being > phr> used in thousands of other applications in other languages. > >

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-26 Thread phr
Jeremy Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The policy has been laid out, multiple times, by multiple people now. The > answer is, you are not going to get any such indication that will satisfy > you. Actually I already got an indication that satisfied me, from Guido and Andrew, although it was la

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-26 Thread phr
Skip Montanaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because good requirements specification is difficult and testing improves > the breed. Better to have the major API changes and bugs taken care of, and > to have its popularity demonstrated *before* it gets into the Python > distribution. The best way

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-26 Thread phr
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That it's not appropriate for the > > distro maintainers to look at the spec and the reference (pure Python) > > implementatation and say "yes, we want this, go write the C version > > and we'll include it after it's had some testing". > > I know t

Re: OT

2005-01-26 Thread phr
"Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is this a problem with my dns? > > Most probably - he shows up as [EMAIL PROTECTED] for me. It's my news client configuration. Normally I post from a different machine but that one is temporarily down. I haven't bothered to configure this one p

Re: Crypto in Python: (Was: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement)

2005-01-25 Thread phr
"Philippe C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So far getting the agreement for my product has taken two months of work > (http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/) I hope to get a positive > response this week (wish me luck!) That sounds like you're doing a closed source product and need an EN

Re: Help! Host is reluctant to install Python

2005-01-25 Thread phr
Daniel Bickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been trying to convince my host to install python/mod_python on > his server for a while now, however there are a number of reasons he > is reluctant to do so, which I will outline here: I'm surprised that you're getting such detailed answers from

Re: Crypto in Python: (Was: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement)

2005-01-25 Thread phr
"Philippe C. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do not know in which country the python.msi is compiled (Deuchland ?), > but most likely, the county has rules like most other as far as crypto > code in binary format export (especially if distributed as part of a > commercial package): for inst

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-25 Thread phr
"Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There isn't. The interface might be beautifully designed, and you might > claim it is, and I would *still* require that the module gets field > testing before being incorporated into Python. Yes, of course, that's completely reasonable. > If other p

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-24 Thread phr
[Again I'm having news server trouble and made a previous attempt to post this, so sorry if you see it twice. This version is edited somewhat from the previous.] "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is not possible - whether the module is included in Python or not. > People *will*

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-24 Thread phr
James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Applications that lack features force users to accept a limited feature > set or they use an alternative program with other limitations. Putting > the possibility for cryptographic storage increases the utility of any > application that stores data, and it

Re: simultaneous multiple requests to very simple database

2005-01-24 Thread phr
I agree with you, there's a crying need for something like that and there's no single "one obvious way to do it" answer. Have you looked at bsddb? See also www.sleepycat.com. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-24 Thread phr
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > please answer the question: have you done this? what kind of programs > have you successfully delivered as "self-contained apps" for use on arbi- > trary platforms? Here's a simple one: import sha name = raw_input('Enter your name: ') print

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-24 Thread phr
"Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > have you tried this, or are you just making things up to be able to > continue the argument? (hint: it doesn't work; python portability > means that it's fairly easy to write programs that run on multiple > platforms, not that they will run on all avai

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-24 Thread phr
[Note: this is a 2nd attempt at posting reply to Martin's message, since the first one didn't reach the server. It's a rewrite from memory but says about the same thing as the other attempt. --Paul] "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > If he understood how Python

Re: What's so funny? WAS Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-24 Thread phr
to in pure Python, try this: http://www.nightsong.com/phr/crypto/p3.py It's a nonstandard algorithm, but so was rotor. Its security should be much better than rotor's, and its speed should be tolerable for most purposes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: rotor replacement

2005-01-20 Thread phr
"Martin v. LÃwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Some countries have laws about cryptography software (against some > > combination of export, import, or use). The Python maintainers didn't > > want to deal with imagined legal hassles that might develop from > > including good crypto functions in