[Python-ideas] adding digital signature and encryption "hashes" to hashlib?

[CTO]

On Sep 25, 1:45 pm, Paul Moore <p.f.mo... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/25 Robert Kern <robert.k... at gmail.com>:
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> > On 2009-09-25 10:40 AM, CTO wrote:
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> >> On Sep 25, 7:44 am, Antoine Pitrou<solip... at pitrou.net>  wrote:
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> >>> - Please don't call the package "evp", it's cryptic (;-)) and tied to a
> >>> specific
> >>> implementation. "crypto" would be fine and obvious.
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> >> I know of at least one implementation that uses Crypto as its
> >> name, and forgot to send them an email earlier this week. I'll
> >> do that today, and if they don't seem bent on changing the
> >> capitalization, I don't see any problem there.
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> > I wouldn't rely on capitalization to differentiate between packages. I think
> > that Python will be able to do so in most circumstances, even on Windows,
> > but it makes it hard to talk about the different packages and ask questions
> > about them on the mailing lists.
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> Agreed. How about "encryption"?

EVP covers hashing, signatures, and encryption/decryption. If we're
going
to go for a longer name, maybe "cryptography" would be more
appropriate?

Geremy Condra