Madison May added the comment:

This issue may have been dead for 3+ years, but perhaps it's time its brought 
back to the surface.  Aside from simple being convenient for general security 
practices, a stdlib module for crypto routines would enable python to handle 
encrypted zipfiles and resolve issues like issue9170. Currently, only hashlib 
and hmac are available to users (see 
http://docs.python.org/3/library/crypto.html).  

I'd imagine that collaboration with the likes of Dwayne from PyCrypto or 
further collaboration with Geremy from Evpy would be possible, and perhaps the 
stdlib could build on a 3rd party crypto library.  Is anyone else interested in 
working to make this happen (or does anyone have a good argument against a 
stdlib crypto library)?  I imagine it would be difficult to maintain, but 
perhaps its at least worth giving this issue a second chance.

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