[Python-3000] 3.0 crypto (was: Re: Solaris support in 3.0?)

[Ivan Krstić]

On Sep 6, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I'm not sure what you meant with "doing the work isn't a problem". Are
> you volunteering? I think we need someone who understands the red tape
> situation most of all. Hopefully I'm worried for nothing.

I'm trying to feel out whether there's strong opposition to shipping  
a good set of built-in crypto operations with Python, and in a way  
that doesn't depend on external libraries.

There are three reasons for opposition that I could imagine:

- legal, in that there's uncertainty about what we can or can't ship.  
I can very likely get the appropriate assistance here to clarify the  
situation.

- technical, in that no one has been willing to do the work of  
providing such a set of crypto ops, and/or of writing a PEP for them.

- philosophical, in that folks think crypto shouldn't come bundled  
with the language.

I'm volunteering to tackle the first two, assuming those are the  
actual problems. Are they?

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