Interested in a Crypto-SIG?

[PC Drew]

In article <3A72C8A3.C4B4D69A at stroeder.com>,
  Michael =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6der?= <michael at stroeder.com> wrote:
> HI!
>
> (I know that SIG proposals should go to the META-SIG list but I
> guess not many developers are subscribed to this list. Therefore I
> start the discussion here.)
>
> I would like to propose a Crypto-SIG. The goal is to define Pythonic
> class APIs for various cryptographic and related standards to enable
> developers to use a unified API for implementing crypto-enabled
> applications in Python independent of the underlying implementations
> (basically inspired by Sun's Java crypto-related APIs).
>

I'm the one who proposed the idea to the meat-sig list the other day.
Since then, I've joined the python-crypto list and have been having
interesting discussions regarding this idea.

There seems to be a genuine interest in this idea and I think that we
should start drafting up an API.  I'm starting to look into amkCrypto
and m2crypto heavily so that I can see what things I haven't thought
about.  I hope to have some sort of draft in the next week. I'll
coordinate this with you.

Also, I think once we get started on this, it'll be easier to try and
get a SIG.  I too think that it'd be better to get a SIG!!


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