| Welcome to ``cryptography`` |
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| .. warning:: |
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| ``cryptography`` is very young, and very incomplete. |
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| ``cryptography`` is a Python library which exposes cryptographic recipes and |
| primitives. |
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| Why a new crypto library for Python? |
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| We wanted to address a few issues with existing cryptography libraries in |
| Python: |
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| * Lack of PyPy and Python 3 support. |
| * Lack of maintenance. |
| * Use of poor implementations of algorithms (i.e. ones with known side-channel |
| attacks). |
| * Lack of high level, "Cryptography for humans", APIs. |
| * Absence of algorithms such as AES-GCM. |
| * Poor introspectability, and thus poor testability. |
| * Extremely error prone APIs, and bad defaults. |
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| Contents |
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| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 2 |
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| architecture |
| exceptions |
| contributing |
| security |
| community |
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| Hazardous Materials |
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| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 2 |
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| hazmat/primitives/index |
| hazmat/bindings/index |