Bug#737356: ITP: cryptography -- a Python library which exposes cryptographic recipes and primitives.
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mithrandi.net>
* Package name : cryptography
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Alex Gaynor, Hynek Schlawack, Donald Stufft, Laurens
Van Houtven, Jean-Paul Calderone, Christian Heimes,
Paul Kehrer, and individual contributors.
* URL : https://cryptography.io/
* License : Apache License, Version 2.0
Programming Lang: Python
Description : a Python library which exposes cryptographic recipes and primitives.
The cryptography library is designed to be a "one-stop-shop" for
all your cryptographic needs in Python.
As an alternative to the libraries that came before it, cryptography
tries to address some of the issues with those libraries:
- 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.
I will probably be maintaining this in DPMT. The binary package name will be
python-cryptography as per the standard Python naming convention.
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