[issue8998] add crypto routines to stdlib

[geremy condra]

geremy condra <debatem1 at gmail.com> added the comment:

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Martin v. Löwis <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:
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>>>   * I'd prefer if the crypto API didn't become OpenSSL specific (like the SSL one is), which would theoretically allow switching in other crypto provider(s).
>>
>> I agree in theory, although I'm not sure how important this is likely
>> to be in practice.
>
> I always wanted to drop OpenSSL from the Windows binaries, and use MS
> CryptoAPI instead.

My familiarity with the CryptoAPI is limited, but I think doing this
for something like evpy would be possible. I also suspect that doing
it for anything that exposed much more than evpy does would grow very
quickly in complexity where it was possible at all.

Geremy Condra

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