[PYTHON-CRYPTO] aes library

Paul Paul at CRYPTORIGHTS.ORG
Sat Mar 30 21:40:56 CET 2002


At 1:25 AM -0800 3/30/02, Bram Cohen wrote:
>
>That's a reasonable padding algorithm, but it's far from the only one in
>use. Like I said, I'm not designing this API to provide a single handy
>encryption function for non-cryptographers to use (although one could
>certainly be written on top of it.) I'm designing it to make
>interoperation with other protocols possible in pure Python.

Even cryptographer would appreciate simple useable APIs.  Few coders
are cryptographers, so your current goals low.  I suspect just a few
enhancements would make AES more usable for the masses.  This seems
like a good thing :-)


Paul
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