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| +Introduction & history
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| +Python-RSA's history starts in 2006. As a student assignment for the
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| +University of Amsterdam we wrote a RSA implementation. We chose Python
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| +for various reasons; one of the most important reasons was the
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| +`unlimited precision integer`_ support.
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| +.. _`unlimited precision integer`:
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| + http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#numeric-types-int-float-long-complex
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| +It started out as just a module for calculating large primes, and RSA
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| +encryption, decryption, signing and verification using those large
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| +numbers. It also included generating public and private keys. There
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| +was no functionality for working with byte sequences (such as files)
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| +yet.
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| +Version 1.0 did include support for byte sequences, but quite clunky,
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| +mostly because it didn't support 0-bytes and thus was unsuitable for
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| +binary messages.
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| +Version 2.0 introduced a lot of improvements by Barry Mead, but still
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| +wasn't compatible with other RSA implementations and used no random
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| +padding.
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| +Version 3.0 introduced PKCS#1 v1.5 functionality, which resulted in
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| +compatibility with OpenSSL and many others implementing the same
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| +standard. Random padding was introduced that considerably increased
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| +security, which also resulted in the ability to encrypt and decrypt
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| +binary messages.
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| +Key generation was also improved in version 3.0, ensuring that you
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| +really get the number of bits you asked for. At the same time key
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| +generation speed was greatly improved. The ability to save and load
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| +public and private keys in PEM and DER format as also added.
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