Gregory P. Smith <g...@krypto.org> added the comment: libtomcrypt is a _great_ library. That is what hashlib uses for the hash algorithms when OpenSSL is not available.
But the _primary_ reason for using OpenSSL is that it is the defacto open source location for the best architecture specific implementations of any hash and crypto algorithm. OpenSSL outperforms libtomcrypt by a significant factor (easily 2x) in most cases. The NSS everywhere effort mentioned in the fedora link sounds interesting. I support having the ability to link against that instead of OpenSSL or copies of libtomcrypt but I am generally in favor of absolute performance per byte of all algorithms concerned being available. (ie: don't force hashlib to stop using openssl, just provide an alternative). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8998> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
