geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> added the comment: On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Daniel Urban <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Daniel Urban <urban.dani...@gmail.com> added the comment: > >> * When I have thought about Python crypto in the stdlib, I've considered >> modeling it after hashlib, so you would get cipher = cryptolib.AES(bits=192, >> ...) etc. (Caveat: haven't thought it through.) > > I think there is a relevant PEP: PEP 272 -- API for Block Encryption > Algorithms v1.0 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0272/ ) > It describes an API somewhat similar to hashlib.
Again, I'm not entirely opposed to this, but I think it represents a lower-level API than most developers can really be safely trusted to handle. Geremy Condra ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8998> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
