cryptography default_backend is "hazmat"?

[Ian Pilcher]

On 03/18/2017 05:15 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> So the question is: How well do you trust the examples? Are they
> likely to be instructing you in a safe way to use this
> potentially-dangerous module?

But as far as I can tell, there's no way to use many of the non-hazmat
functions (e.g. parsing a certificate) without a backend, and all of the
backends are "hazmat".

So what's the point of marking something as hazmat, if a large portion
of the rest of the module can't be used without it?

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