Re: Cryptokit.Random unsuitable in cooperative multithreaded systems

[Vincent Bernardoff <vb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/04/2013 14:51, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> So in this situation, I would improve the bug report with a patch against 1.7 
> and follow up to Xavier with the rebased patch to the latest release.  And a 
> belated question: why do you need SHA-512, out of interest?
I needed it when I did my bitcoin arbitrage bot experiment. One bitcoin 
exchange (mtgox) uses it in its RPC protocol, to identify a user.
For cryptokit, the delicate thing is that the sha512 code is not my 
code. I replaced Xavier's code for all sha functions by Vincent's one, 
as it is more efficient. I am not sure if he is interested in that 
anyway. I could start with doing a patch with sha512 code, to see his 
reaction.
Vincent