#2322 closed enhancement

use 'cryptography' instead of 'pycryptopp' — at Version 2

Reported by: daira Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone: undecided
Component: code Version: 1.10.0
Keywords: cryptography pycryptopp aes chacha rsa ed25519 Cc:
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Description (last modified by daira)

See http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptopp-users%40googlegroups.com/msg06857.html for motivation.

Zooko wrote

In the future, I intend to work toward replacing Crypto++ entirely in pycryptopp, for reasons of compilation, portability, deployment, etc.

The biggest single problem I have with Crypto++ is that it is written in C++. Every couple of years this causes a deployment headache for me.

The most recent example is that the newest and best way to interface native code to Python -- cffi (http://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) doesn't support C++ at all. I think I'd rather have the simplicity of using cffi and give up the advantages of Crypto++. That means I have to adopt some other implementation of AES and of RSA, most likely by relying on a future release of pyOpenSSL which is itself based on cffi and which exposes the lower-level API of OpenSSL to Python land.

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comment:1 Changed at 2014-10-17T10:41:39Z by daira

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comment:2 Changed at 2014-10-17T10:42:27Z by daira

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