[Python-3000] 3.0 crypto (was: Re: Solaris support in 3.0?) (original) (raw)
Ivan Krstić krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu
Tue Sep 11 09:29:26 CEST 2007
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On Sep 6, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I'm not sure what you meant with "doing the work isn't a problem". Are you volunteering? I think we need someone who understands the red tape situation most of all. Hopefully I'm worried for nothing.
I'm trying to feel out whether there's strong opposition to shipping
a good set of built-in crypto operations with Python, and in a way
that doesn't depend on external libraries.
There are three reasons for opposition that I could imagine:
legal, in that there's uncertainty about what we can or can't ship.
I can very likely get the appropriate assistance here to clarify the
situation.technical, in that no one has been willing to do the work of
providing such a set of crypto ops, and/or of writing a PEP for them.philosophical, in that folks think crypto shouldn't come bundled
with the language.
I'm volunteering to tackle the first two, assuming those are the
actual problems. Are they?
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