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| author | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2013-12-12 18:41:38 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2013-12-12 18:41:38 -0800 |
| commit | db042cdb07f08662531246b8ae58f437f2104ad3 (patch) | |
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| parent | ed139e7ed49c523de362c2486348bbdf9c57c451 (diff) | |
| parent | 31df5357132319de7c9eb7154dd72ddebcbc4afa (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #302 from alex/beef-up-the-index
More info in teh index
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diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 1b88e24e..a1a650a8 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -6,13 +6,26 @@ Welcome to ``cryptography`` ``cryptography`` is very young, and very incomplete. ``cryptography`` is a Python library which exposes cryptographic recipes and -primitives. +primitives. We hope it'll be your one-stop-shop for all your cryptographic +needs in Python. + +Installing +---------- + +We don't yet have a release on PyPI, for now you can install ``cryptography`` +directly from Github: + +.. code-block:: console + + $ pip install git+https://github.com/pyca/cryptography Why a new crypto library for Python? ------------------------------------ -We wanted to address a few issues with existing cryptography libraries in -Python: +If you've done cryptographic work in Python before, you've probably seen some +other libraries in Python, such as *M2Crypto*, *PyCrypto*, or *PyOpenSSL*. In +building ``cryptography`` we wanted to address a few issues we observed in the +existing libraries: * Lack of PyPy and Python 3 support. * Lack of maintenance. |