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Alex Gaynor8d7fb752013-08-06 19:30:47 -07001Cryptography
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Alex Gaynor8d7fb752013-08-06 19:30:47 -070010``cryptography`` is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and
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Alex Gaynor7a6b5cb2013-08-07 09:56:34 -070012
13It is currently in early development and isn't recommended for general usage
14yet. It targets Python 2.6-2.7, Python 3.2+, as well as PyPy.
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16Why a new crypto library for Python?
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19None of the existing ones work on PyPy, and many of them are unmaintained or
20are based around very poor implementations of algorithms (i.e ones with known
21side-channel attacks).