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     ``cryptography`` is very young, and very incomplete.
 
-``cryptography`` is a Python library which exposes cryptographic primitives and
-recipes.
+``cryptography`` is a Python library which exposes cryptographic recipes and
+primitives.
 
 Why a new crypto library for Python?
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