This script was tested with both Python 2.7.15 and 3.7.1, and requires the ssdeep version 3.3 third-party library.
As you may have noticed, the prior implementation is almost prohibitively slow. In situations like this, it's best to leverage a language, such as C, that can perform this operation much faster. Luckily for us, spamsum was originally written in C, then further expanded by the ssdeep project, also in C. One of the expansions the ssdeep project provides us with is Python bindings. These bindings allow us to still have our familiar Python function calls while offloading the heavy calculations to our compiled C code. Our next script covers the implementation of the ssdeep library in a Python module to produce the same signatures and handle comparison operations.
In this second example of fuzzy hashing, we're going...
