[issue8998] add crypto routines to stdlib

[Georg Brandl]

Georg Brandl <georg at python.org> added the comment:

> The license clearly states: "All advertising materials mentioning
> features or use of this software". Do you somehow disagree that base64
> is a feature of the OpenSSL library?
>
> http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/BIO_f_base64.html

That's funny. Do you think that if OpenSSL provided its own implementation of strlen(), every text that mentions strlen() needs to acknowledge OpenSSL? Do you realize how ridiculous that is?

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