offered: Python wrappers for Crypto++; wanted: SSL

[zooko]

Folks:

We needed a few crypto algorithms in our decentralized filesystem
project -- the http://allmydata.org "tahoe" project. Our source code
is primarily in Python, so I wrote Python wrappers for the crypto
algorithms we needed and published the result as a library named
"pycryptopp" [1]. I'm very pleased with pycryptopp, and I've been
intending to "flesh it out" by adding documentation, more unit tests,
wrapping more algorithms, etc., and to announce it to the world in
case anyone else wanted to use it.

But, the tahoe project may soon stop using pycryptopp, because we
need SSL in addition to separate RSA, DSA, SHA-256, and AES functions.

We can probably switch to a Python library named M2Crypto [2] in the
future, which is made of SWIG wrappers around OpenSSL, and thus get
both our SSL needs and our specific-crypto-algorithm needs satisfied
by a single library. Here is the discussion about this issue: [3].

If Crypto++ came with an implementation of SSL then it could be
considered as an alternative to M2Crypto.

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pycryptopp
[2] http://chandlerproject.org/bin/view/Projects/MeTooCrypto
[3] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/11

[Wei Dai]

Hi Zooko, have you looked at yaSSL?

http://www.yassl.com/arch.html

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Subject: offered: Python wrappers for Crypto++; wanted: SSL