[meta-sig] encryption/compression sig

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 02:10:30PM -0700, PC Drew wrote:
>isn't a real big interest in compression or encryption.  I notice this
>because there aren't any modules (or a small amount) that do this!

Python comes with a zlib module and some lame SSL support in the
socket module (though both usually aren't built by default on Unix),
and there are various extensions for crytographic algorithms:
mxCrypto, my amkCrypto, and m2crypto, which wraps OpenSSL.  However,
this area has been slow to progress because the APIs are large --
OpenSSL's is huge! -- and various people seem to have little time to
work on this.  More help would be really appreciated.

>Feedback?  If people are interested (or not adverse to it), then I'll draft
>up a formal proposal with a name, description, and the like.

There's a very quiet python-crypto mailing list; see  
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/python-crypto/

--amk