Thursday 3 July 2008

Cryptography and the Swedish Connection

This post relates to a question that arose as I was debugging a Python program using pdb. I wrote a small program which was spending most of its time inside sre_compile.py (via pickle.py -> re.py -> sre_compile.py). I looked inside sre_compile.py and found this was "Secret Labs'" regular expression library. So who are Secret Labs and do they have anything to do with cryptography?

This website is the home of Secret Labs AB. They are based in Sweden and have been working with Python since 1997. AB stands for Aktiebolag ("stock company"). Did you know SAAB is actually short for SA Aktiebolag?