[Cryptography-dev] Criteria for first release?

[Donald Stufft]

One thing we’ll need is a backwards compat policy/versioning scheme.

Personally I think semver with PEP440 syntax?

On Oct 24, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
> 
> We're at an exciting point where it's actually possible to do stuff with cryptography. You know what that means... time to start thinking about a release! I'd like us to make a list of the stuff we think should be in our first release. Here's my list:
> 
> * Figure out our packaging / bundling story with OpenSSL
> * Finish binding OpenSSL to the point where JP can use it for PyOpenSSL
> * The last two block ciphers that conch would need (CAST and Blowfish)
> * Finalizing the iterator APIs for BlockCipher
> * Padding APIs
> 
> Here's stuff I'm not sure about:
> * Everything that conch needs (this means figuring out the API for RSA/DSA)
> * GCM
> * CommonCrypto backend
> 
> What do ya'll think, am I missing anything, do I have to much?
> 
> As a heads up: once we're ready to do the release and we've frozen a release-candidate I plan to investigate getting it audited.
> 
> Alex
> 
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