[Python-3000] 3.0 crypto (original) (raw)

Gregory P. Smith greg at krypto.org
Tue Sep 11 23:38:07 CEST 2007

Last I heard, AMK was no longer maintaining pycrypto, and a number of people have found weird issues with it and were generally uncertain of the correctness of the implemented crypto.

> The pycrypto API is is very nice. But if we were to consider it > for the standard library I'd prefer it just link against OpenSSL > rather than use its own C implementations and just leave platforms > without ssl without any crypto. That's one option, although there seems to be some FUD surrounding OpenSSL licensing and its interactions with the GPL: <http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html> It's also a standalone library, and it strikes me as much nicer to just have Python provide the crypto functionality out of the box. So, if we built an API atop the (public domain) LibTomCrypt code that mimicked that of pycrypto, would anyone object to getting that kind of thing into the Python source distribution?

I'm +1 for that. LibTomCrypt is a great place to start.

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