Pure Python Salsa20 Stream Cipher Implementation

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sat, 09 Feb 2008 20:29:58 -0200, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> escribió:

> In article <mailman.546.1202530094.9267.python-list at python.org>,
> Gabriel Genellina <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>> En Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:34:30 -0200, <betabrain.honshu at gmail.com>  
>> escribió:
>>> On 8 Feb., 17:18, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand why a pure python version of salsa20 would be
>>>> interesting.  Is there some application that uses salsa20, that's
>>>> worth being able to interoperate with in pure python?
>>>
>>> The reason for a pure python is that it would be independent from the
>>> platform. A C implementation is faster, but you need to compile it for
>>> every platform. A python implementation doesn't have that problem and
>>> could be used to fall back upon.
>>
>> On most platforms -with a notable exception- there is a C compiler
>> available as a standard tool, which is used to compile Python itself.
>> distutils can easily compile and install C extensions itself, so most of
>> the time "python setup.py install" is the only thing users have to
>> execute, exactly the same as if the package were pure Python. With
>> setuptools, things may be even easier.
>
> What about Jython, PyPy, and IronPython?

What about them?
Do you mean that there should be a Python implementation for each and  
every imaginable module over there, so it can be used with all of those  
Python variants? Restricted of course to their minimum common feature set?

-- 
Gabriel Genellina