[PYTHON-CRYPTO] Current state of the art?

[Andy Dustman]

At one point (this was years ago), I worked on a SWIG-generated interface
to the SSLeay crypto routines (pre-OpenSSL). Most of the ciphers worked,
and there was access to BIGNUM objects, and I think maybe most of the RSA
stuff worked, and SHA1. This was in the "bad old days" of ITAR...

It would nice for this to be broken out as a package:

crypto
  +---bignum
  +---ciphers
         +----privatekey
                 +---aes
                 +---blowfish
                 +---des
         +----publickey
                 +---rsa
                 +---dsa
                 +---dh
         +----oneway
                 +---md5
                 +---sha1
                 +---ripemd160
  +---keymanagement
  +---network
  ...

crypto.ciphers.privatekey.* would have various object classes which
implement the various cipher modes (ECB, CBC, etc.); these could actually
be factory functions. I think it was AMK's stuff that had cryptors which
would take a plaintext string input and return ciphertext (or vice
versa). I liked that model, but we can also have ones that read/write file
objects.

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