[issue8998] add crypto routines to stdlib

[geremy condra]

geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Daniel Urban <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Daniel Urban <urban.dani+py at gmail.com> added the comment:
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>>  * When I have thought about Python crypto in the stdlib, I've considered modeling it after hashlib, so you would get cipher = cryptolib.AES(bits=192, ...) etc. (Caveat: haven't thought it through.)
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> I think there is a relevant PEP: PEP 272 -- API for Block Encryption Algorithms v1.0 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0272/ )
> It describes an API somewhat similar to hashlib.

Again, I'm not entirely opposed to this, but I think it represents a
lower-level API than most developers can really be safely trusted to
handle.

Geremy Condra

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