PySkein 0.5.2
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PySkein is an extension module for Python 3.0 or later, allowing Python scripts
to compute hash values with the recently proposed `Skein hash algorithm`_ (one
of the Second Round Candidates in the `NIST SHA-3 Competition`_).  It is based
on the optimized version of the Skein reference implementation, written in C by
Doug Whiting. This guarantees efficient hashing (373 MB/s for Skein-512-512
called from Python on a 2.8 GHz Opteron).

.. _`Skein hash algorithm`: http://www.skein-hash.info
.. _`NIST SHA-3 Competition`: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/index.html


.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2

    skein
    threefish
    random
    scripts
    download
