On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:54:33 -0400 Michael Crute <mcr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > That was not my question. My question was whether there was a reason to > > rewrite a separate OpenSSL-accessing library rather than contributing to > > improve the "hashlib" and "ssl" modules which are already part of the > > Python stdlib. > > The ssl module in the standard library is currently just SSL wrappers > around sock objects while M2Crypto, PyCrypto and Evpy are all a more > complete implementation of the other cryptography and signing features > in OpenSSL. I think it would be really awesome to have a complete > OpenSSL wrapper in the Python standard library since crypto in Python > is somewhat of a pain today. If I wanted to work on something like > that what would be the best approach? Extend the ssl package? Create a > new crypto package?
It depends on what feature(s) exactly you want to work on. If you want to provide encryption/decryption routines, perhaps a new module or package is best. In any case, feel free to open a entry at http://bugs.python.org and we can discuss it. Regards Antoine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
