[issue8998] add encryption/decryption/signature/verification routines to stdlib

2010-06-14 Thread geremy condra
geremy condra added the comment: On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Martin v. Löwis added the comment: > > Assuming you are willing to contribute evpy (and have the rights to do so, > i.e. all of the code is truly yours): what's the user acceptance of the code? I'd b

[issue8998] add encryption/decryption/signature/verification routines to stdlib

2010-06-14 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > The contributor would have to sign a contributor agreement, giving the > PSF the right to relicense under the PSF license (or anything they > please to relicense under). If the contributor only has a BSD license > (from his contributors), he has no right to

[issue8998] add encryption/decryption/signature/verification routines to stdlib

2010-06-14 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: >> and have the rights to do so, i.e. all of the code is truly yours > > Is it really required, or is a non-copyleft liberal license (MIT-like or > BSD-like) enough? The contributor would have to sign a contributor agreement, giving the PSF the right to reli

[issue8998] add encryption/decryption/signature/verification routines to stdlib

2010-06-14 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > and have the rights to do so, i.e. all of the code is truly yours Is it really required, or is a non-copyleft liberal license (MIT-like or BSD-like) enough? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue8998] add encryption/decryption/signature/verification routines to stdlib

2010-06-14 Thread Antoine Pitrou
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[issue8998] add encryption/decryption/signature/verification routines to stdlib

2010-06-14 Thread Martin v . Löwis
Martin v. Löwis added the comment: Assuming you are willing to contribute evpy (and have the rights to do so, i.e. all of the code is truly yours): what's the user acceptance of the code? In particular, what do authors of competing OpenSSL wrappers (like M2Crypto) or other Python crypto packa

[issue8998] add encryption/decryption/signature/verification routines to stdlib

2010-06-14 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Changes by Antoine Pitrou : -- nosy: +exarkun, gregory.p.smith, pitrou versions: +Python 3.2 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyt

[issue8998] add encryption/decryption/signature/verification routines to stdlib

2010-06-14 Thread geremy condra
geremy condra added the comment: apologies, forgot the link: [0] http://gitorious.org/evpy -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-

[issue8998] add encryption/decryption/signature/verification routines to stdlib

2010-06-14 Thread geremy condra
New submission from geremy condra : Python's hashlib and ssl modules currently leverage OpenSSL to provide developers with access to cryptographic hash and TLS routines, but encryption/decryption and signature/verification support are still missing. I propose the addition of an easy-to-use cry