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| author | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2013-08-11 08:17:48 -0400 |
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| committer | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2013-08-11 08:17:48 -0400 |
| commit | 9f3468dcfc92fca43ac105204427d03c863b4b4b (patch) | |
| tree | 46eaa1778b7c82f90eecad79a9613bc5b4bc4c34 | |
| parent | 7ad6a1d5a6d9098d770229b13feb17c91ecf0d8f (diff) | |
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Better describe why this library exists. Refs #5
| -rw-r--r-- | README.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/index.rst | 13 |
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@@ -12,10 +12,3 @@ recipes to Python developers. It is currently in early development and isn't recommended for general usage yet. It targets Python 2.6-2.7, Python 3.2+, as well as PyPy. - -Why a new crypto library for Python? ------------------------------------- - -None of the existing ones work on PyPy, and many of them are unmaintained or -are based around very poor implementations of algorithms (i.e ones with known -side-channel attacks). diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 1d8ffda6..a061b3e7 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ Welcome to ``cryptography`` ``cryptography`` is a Python library which exposes cryptographic primitives and recipes. +Why a new crypto library for Python? +------------------------------------ + +We wanted to address a few issues with existing cryptography libraries in +Python: + +* Lack of PyPy support +* Lack of maintenance +* Use poor implementations of algorithms (i.e. ones with known side-channel + attacks) +* Lack of high level, "Cryptography for humans", APIs + + Contents: .. toctree:: |