[Twisted-Python] INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: removing dependency on PyCrypto

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn zookog at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 09:19:17 MST 2015


On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>
> It's worth noting that Cryptography now provides good support for AES and RSA (pretty sure this was not true when I was last discussing Cryptography in the context of Tahoe), and has plans for Ed25519 - https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/856 - so you may be able to reduce this even further in the future :).

FWIW I would be uncomfortable relying on https://cryptography.io for
Tahoe-LAFS's purposes. I expect to continue to rely on
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycryptopp/ for that for the forseeable
future.

Regards,

Zooko




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