| Alex Gaynor | 1abfac7 | 2013-08-07 12:59:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Welcome to ``cryptography`` |
| 2 | =========================== |
| 3 | |
| 4 | .. warning:: |
| 5 | |
| 6 | ``cryptography`` is very young, and very incomplete. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | ``cryptography`` is a Python library which exposes cryptographic primitives and |
| 9 | recipes. |
| Alex Gaynor | c62e91f | 2013-08-06 19:25:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | |
| Alex Gaynor | 9f3468d | 2013-08-11 08:17:48 -0400 | [diff] [blame^] | 11 | Why a new crypto library for Python? |
| 12 | ------------------------------------ |
| 13 | |
| 14 | We wanted to address a few issues with existing cryptography libraries in |
| 15 | Python: |
| 16 | |
| 17 | * Lack of PyPy support |
| 18 | * Lack of maintenance |
| 19 | * Use poor implementations of algorithms (i.e. ones with known side-channel |
| 20 | attacks) |
| 21 | * Lack of high level, "Cryptography for humans", APIs |
| 22 | |
| 23 | |
| Alex Gaynor | c62e91f | 2013-08-06 19:25:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 24 | Contents: |
| 25 | |
| 26 | .. toctree:: |
| Alex Gaynor | 1abfac7 | 2013-08-07 12:59:04 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 27 | :maxdepth: 2 |
| 28 | |
| 29 | architecture |
| Alex Gaynor | f6c47e9 | 2013-08-08 07:16:01 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | primitives/index |
| Alex Gaynor | ddd90c1 | 2013-08-07 13:10:32 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | community |