[Python-3000] 3.0 crypto

[Gregory P. Smith]

> Last I heard, AMK was no longer maintaining pycrypto, and a number of
> people have found weird issues with it and were generally uncertain
> of the correctness of the implemented crypto.
>
> > The pycrypto API is is very nice.  But if we were to consider it
> > for the standard library I'd prefer it just link against OpenSSL
> > rather than use its own C implementations and just leave platforms
> > without ssl without any crypto.
>
> That's one option, although there seems to be some FUD surrounding
> OpenSSL licensing and its interactions with the GPL:
>
>      <http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html>
>
> It's also a standalone library, and it strikes me as much nicer to
> just have Python provide the crypto functionality out of the box. So,
> if we built an API atop the (public domain) LibTomCrypt code that
> mimicked that of pycrypto, would anyone object to getting that kind
> of thing into the Python source distribution?


I'm +1 for that.  LibTomCrypt is a great place to start.

-gps
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