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@@ -16,12 +16,3 @@ yet. It targets Python 2.6-2.7, Python 3.2+, as well as PyPy. You can find more documentation at `Read The Docs`_. .. _`Read The Docs`: https://cryptography.readthedocs.org/ - - -Why a new crypto library for Python? ------------------------------------- - -None of the existing ones work on PyPy, and many of them are unmaintained or -are based around very poor implementations of algorithms (i.e ones with known -side-channel attacks). - 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 |