Hi,

> > the reason is that cryptography (https://cryptography.io/en/latest/)
> > only supports two states: unencrypted, and encrypted with its own
> > choice of algorithm ("best available algorithm"):
> > https://cryptography.io/en/latest/hazmat/primitives/asymmetric/serialization/#serialization-encryption-types
> >  
> 
>       Thank you, Felix!  I guess I'll have to submit a pull
> request[1]. Is there a particular reason Ansible is deprecating
> pyOpenSSL?  It seems it has more features and is still an active
> project[2].  (The last change was not too long ago in November 2019.)

well, there's the big fat note in
https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/blob/master/README.rst:

> **Note:** The Python Cryptographic Authority **strongly suggests** the
> use of pyca/cryptography where possible. If you are using pyOpenSSL for
> anything other than making a TLS connection **you should move to
> cryptography and drop your pyOpenSSL dependency**.

Besides that, working with pyOpenSSL is really not that much fun. I'd
rather get rid of the pyOpenSSL backends yesterday than somewhen in the
future...

Cheers,
Felix


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