On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > Le lundi 14 juin 2010 à 13:18 -0400, geremy condra a écrit : >> >> >> >> Evpy[1] is designed to be a very easy-to-use interface to OpenSSL, >> >> although it is by design limited to doing things the right way, so it >> >> may not meet your needs. >> > >> > How about contributing to the standard hashlib and ssl modules? Is >> > there anything there that goes in the way, e.g. design-wise? >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > Antoine >> >> Evpy currently uses ctypes for its bindings, so my understanding is >> that it isn't eligible for inclusion, but a rewrite as a C extension is >> under way and I'd be happy to contribute that. > > That was not my question. My question was whether there was a reason to > rewrite a separate OpenSSL-accessing library rather than contributing to > improve the "hashlib" and "ssl" modules which are already part of the > Python stdlib.
Yes. Hashlib is designed to provide cryptographic hashes, and the ssl module to provide TLS support. Evpy provides encryption and signing. Am I answering your question? Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list