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Writing tutorials on "programming for cryptanalysts"; Looking for comments and ideas
Topic Started: Jul 7 2009, 03:11 AM (392 Views)
mosher Jul 27 2009, 05:30 PM Post #16
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 I'm glad you found the snippets idea of value. Over the years I've collected lots of bit and pieces to inject into scripts -- it certainly saves time .

Of course you're right that serious programming calls for extending libraries, not cut-and-paste (see my post #6 above). I find the snippets help for the quick-and-dirty scripts I often write when analyzing, say, Chaocipher. Truth be told, creating libraries in Perl is not easy or pretty -- probably much easier to do in Python.

I do have a Perl template in the snippets DB that I always copy-and-paste when I begin a new Perl script. It contains lots of boilerplate stuff like reading command line options, displaying the command-line values, and rudimentary code for checking command line option validity. I just paste it in, spend two minutes adapting the command line code, and I've got a framework on which to continue the work.

Bottom line: serious programming (and, as you point out, we should always strive for higher and better) calls for well thought out libraries or classes. How about you leading the pack with an extensible cryptographic Open Source Python library?

Regards,

Moshe
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jdege Jul 27 2009, 06:42 PM Post #17
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How about you leading the pack with an extensible cryptographic Open Source Python library?

I may very well do that, eventually, but I've done little in Python, so far. What I have that would be of use to anyone else is in that tutorial.
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
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