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 While ``cryptography`` and `NaCl`_ both share the goal of making cryptography
 easier, and safer, to use for developers, ``cryptography`` is designed to be a
-general purpose library, capable of interoperating with existing systems, while
-NaCl features a collection of hand selected algorithms.
+general purpose library, interoperable with existing systems, while NaCl
+features a collection of hand selected algorithms.
 
 ``cryptography``'s recipes layer is similar in design to NaCl.