[PYTHON-CRYPTO] Hashing modules

Michael Ströder michael at STROEDER.COM
Sun Feb 11 20:23:38 CET 2001


Ng Pheng Siong wrote:
>
> > Also we should try to implement a Codec-like StreamWriter() /
> > StreamReader() class for that like mentioned by M.-A. Lemburg on the
> > (deprecated) eGroups list.
>
> OpenSSL's stackable BIO interface is quite amenable to this.

I'm not in favour of seeing this SWIGed BIO stuff in a high-level
Python API. IMHO the Codec-like approach is more Pythonic. But an
implementation is free to use BIOs below that API. ;-)

Ciao, Michael.





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