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authorPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2014-01-23 19:55:26 -0800
committerPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2014-01-23 19:55:26 -0800
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Merge pull request #499 from alex/windows-openssl
Document where to get OpenSSL on windows
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@@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ You can install ``cryptography`` with ``pip``:
$ pip install cryptography
+.. note::
+
+ If you're on Windows you'll need to make sure you have OpenSSL installed.
+ There are `pre-compiled binaries`_ available.
+
+
Why a new crypto library for Python?
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@@ -81,3 +87,6 @@ The ``cryptography`` open source project
doing-a-release
changelog
community
+
+
+.. _`pre-compiled binaries`: https://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html