What do people think of Fernet?

[Will Sargent]

Hi all,

I’ve been looking at the Fernet spec — it only does symmetric encryption, but seems to have much in common in style with Keyczar:

https://github.com/fernet/spec/blob/master/Spec.md

It seems to be used mostly as an identity token for Open Stack:

http://lbragstad.com/fernet-tokens-and-key-rotation/

https://www.mattfischer.com/blog/?p=648

https://www.mattfischer.com/blog/?p=665

Will.