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sorry to ask, but what about that cryptographic project? why didn't you pick CL?

• lisper 5y ago
  Because that product was an embedded system running on a very small SoC. It only had 1MB of flash and 192k of SRAM. It's theoretically possible to run CL on a system that small -- Coral Common Lisp ran on a Mac Plus with 1MB of RAM back in the 1980s -- but nothing off-the-shelf will do that today. (I did, however, put a little Scheme interpreter on it as an easter egg :-) I do have some CL code that supports the crypto project. The back-end for this: https://stage.sc4.us/sc4/sc4tk.html https://stage.sc4.us/sc4/sc4tk.html is written in CL (though all the actual encryption is done client-side in Javascript). I also have some prototype crypto code that I don't really use for anything, including this double-ratchet implementation: https://github.com/rongarret/tweetnacl/blob/master/ratchet.lisp https://github.com/rongarret/tweetnacl/blob/master/ratchet.l... and some elliptic curve code: http://www.flownet.com/ron/lisp/djbec.lisp http://www.flownet.com/ron/lisp/djbec.lisp