Bug#710464: ITP: python-scrypt -- Python bindings for the scrypt key derivation function library

[Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Micah Anderson <micah@debian.org>

* Package name    : python-scrypt
  Version         : 0.5.3
  Upstream Author : Magnus Hallin <mhallin@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://bitbucket.org/mhallin/py-scrypt
* License         : BSD
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Python bindings for the scrypt key derivation function library

 This is a set of Python bindings for the scrypt key derivation function. 
 .
 Scrypt is useful when encrypting password as it is possible to specify a
 minimum amount of time to use when encrypting and decrypting. If, for
 example, a password takes 0.05 seconds to verify, a user won't notice the
 slight delay when signing in, but doing a brute force search of several
 billion passwords will take a considerable amount of time. This is in
 contrast to more traditional hash functions such as MD5 or the SHA family
 which can be implemented extremely fast on cheap hardware.