[issue8998] add crypto routines to stdlib

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> > This sounds a bit ridiculous. Why not add the crypto routines directly
> > to the stdlib?
> 
> To make those routines available to a broader audience and to
> get more user feedback.

Sure. But it can be any standalone package, not necessarily pyOpenSSL.
Then, if we want to add them to the stdlib, we don't have to pull in the
whole pyOpenSSL package.

> I don't think we can add pyOpenSSL to Python 3.2,

Right, it's too late.

> so it's better
> to use the available time to hash out the details outside the
> stdlib. Once it's in the stdlib, changing APIs is very difficult.

Then I think the discussion about API and process should move to
python-ideas.

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