[issue8998] add crypto routines to stdlib
Marc-Andre Lemburg
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Oct 14 14:33:07 CEST 2010
Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:
Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> 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.
pyOpenSSL has the advantage of already providing all the other
bits and pieces needed to interface and build against OpenSSL,
so it's a good ecosystem for such a development.
Besides there are already patches available which do add the
ciphers and hashs to pyOpenSSL, so the development could be
sped up by using those as references.
>> 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.
The APIs should probably be discussed on the Python crypto or
pyOpenSSL list and the discussion about its integration into the
stdlib on either the python-dev or the stdlib list.
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyopenssl-list
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-crypto
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
python-ideas is not really meant for such discussions.
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