[PYTHON-CRYPTO] Existing python APIs

[Ng Pheng Siong]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Andrew Archibald wrote:
> - M2crypto: wraps openSSL.  Contains block and stream ciphers, HMACs, RSA,
>     DH, DSA.  Adds SSL and S/MIME.  Designed for use by Zope (?).

Not designed for Zope. Zope was simply a convenient real-world system to
demonstrate M2Crypto's capabilities on. ;-)


> - Mojonation writes their own crypto.  It's slow.

IIRC, Mojonation's crypto is from one of the well-known C/C++ libraries.
The crypto shouldn't be slow; it's probably the bandwidth.


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