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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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