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| author | Hynek Schlawack <hs@ox.cx> | 2013-08-11 06:16:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Hynek Schlawack <hs@ox.cx> | 2013-08-11 06:16:47 -0700 |
| commit | f0091d0f4c12177eec3216567eae229cf694e320 (patch) | |
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Merge pull request #38 from alex/why-cryptography
Better describe why this library exists. Refs #5
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diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 1d8ffda6..29f0b545 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -8,7 +8,24 @@ Welcome to ``cryptography`` ``cryptography`` is a Python library which exposes cryptographic primitives and recipes. -Contents: +Why a new crypto library for Python? +------------------------------------ + +We wanted to address a few issues with existing cryptography libraries in +Python: + +* Lack of PyPy support. +* Lack of maintenance. +* Use of poor implementations of algorithms (i.e. ones with known side-channel + attacks). +* Lack of high level, "Cryptography for humans", APIs. +* Absence of algorithms such as AES-GCM. +* Poor introspectability, and thus poor testability. +* Extremely error prone APIs, and bad defaults. + + +Contents +-------- .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 |