[issue8998] add crypto routines to stdlib

[Antoine Pitrou]

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

> pyOpenSSL is stable, in production use and
> has a decent API. The ssl module is good enough for HTTPS client
> use. pyOpenSSL provides a robust server side implementation with
> all the required certificate and context handling needed for this.
> 
> We could tell people to use the ssl module for clients and
> pyOpenSSL for the server side and perhaps integrate the OpenSSL
> package into the ssl namespace.

In this case, this should be decided early, so that I know if I should
continue caring about the ssl module or not. I'm not interested in
maintaining potentially obsolete code.

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