From 7a6b5cb4665ddad19c6123117501e54da7b39b3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Gaynor Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 09:56:34 -0700 Subject: Fill out the readme a bit more. --- README.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.rst') diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index b4041bca..82490f99 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -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). -- cgit v1.2.3