[issue8998] add crypto routines to stdlib
Madison May
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Aug 2 23:42:59 CEST 2013
Madison May added the comment:
This issue may have been dead for 3+ years, but perhaps it's time its brought back to the surface. Aside from simple being convenient for general security practices, a stdlib module for crypto routines would enable python to handle encrypted zipfiles and resolve issues like issue9170. Currently, only hashlib and hmac are available to users (see http://docs.python.org/3/library/crypto.html).
I'd imagine that collaboration with the likes of Dwayne from PyCrypto or further collaboration with Geremy from Evpy would be possible, and perhaps the stdlib could build on a 3rd party crypto library. Is anyone else interested in working to make this happen (or does anyone have a good argument against a stdlib crypto library)? I imagine it would be difficult to maintain, but perhaps its at least worth giving this issue a second chance.
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