[PYTHON-CRYPTO] CSPRNG schemes : Any comments?

[Rich Salz]

> So far this defense has met with little acceptance, but this is to be
> expected in the crypto field. After all, most cryptographers will still
> blindly choose RSA over Elliptic Curves simply because they feel safer all
> sticking together, even though ECC is ten times as fast and has a key size
> that increases exponentially in security. For example, 160 bit ECC is
> equivalent to 1024 bit RSA whereas 256 bit ECC roughly equates to 4096
> bits in RSA.

Oh dear, you're losing credibility fast.

By the "GIL" you mean the Python interpreter lock in ceval.c?  That does
its swapping purely on user-space instructions, not hardware clock
cycles.  Seems to me the cryptographers are right.
        /r$