On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > 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.
The ssl module in the standard library is currently just SSL wrappers around sock objects while M2Crypto, PyCrypto and Evpy are all a more complete implementation of the other cryptography and signing features in OpenSSL. I think it would be really awesome to have a complete OpenSSL wrapper in the Python standard library since crypto in Python is somewhat of a pain today. If I wanted to work on something like that what would be the best approach? Extend the ssl package? Create a new crypto package? -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problem just with potatoes. --Douglas Adams -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list