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@@ -3,3 +3,13 @@ Cryptography ``cryptography`` is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and 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). |