[lug] Python and Cryptography

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 04:40:55PM -0600, PC Drew wrote:
>SSLeay and I don't want to distribute something that requires other
>packages.  Would it be a good idea to write a wrapper for SSH
>version 1?  Any help would be appreciated.

I guess it depends on what kind of crypto you need to do.  With SSH,
you'll have to have a system account on the destination machine to
use it.  Besides, making a wrapper for ssh doesn't qualify under your
goal of not requiring other packages.

I looked at M2Crypto (see freshmeat.net) a couple of weeks ago, and it
looks promising.  I don't know of any crypto libraries that are written
in pure Python -- I think AMK's crypto stuff is the closest, it's got a
lot of stuff written in C though.  I don't believe it links against libssl
though.

Sean
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