[Python-Dev] Cryptographic stuff for 2.3

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:34:10 -0400


> Of course, if one considers crypto stuff as useless and a waste of
> time, then probably https is not interesting, either.

Except that some URLs are *only* accessible through https -- this was
the push for supporting https.  I don't see the same kind of push for
AES yet.

It is true that we should report the inclusiong of openssl and its
wrappers to the authorities.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)