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authorPaul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com>2017-05-20 13:25:47 -0700
committerAlex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>2017-05-20 13:25:47 -0700
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remove multibackend (#3555)
* remove multibackend * oops * goodbye pointless tests
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@@ -8,15 +8,11 @@ Getting a backend
.. currentmodule:: cryptography.hazmat.backends
-``cryptography`` aims to support multiple backends to ensure it can provide
-the widest number of supported cryptographic algorithms as well as supporting
-platform specific implementations.
+``cryptography`` was originally designed to support multiple backends, but
+this design has been deprecated.
You can get the default backend by calling :func:`~default_backend`.
-The default backend will change over time as we implement new backends and
-the libraries we use in those backends changes.
-
.. function:: default_backend()
@@ -31,5 +27,4 @@ Individual backends
:maxdepth: 1
openssl
- multibackend
interfaces