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@@ -9,14 +9,28 @@ Cryptography ``cryptography`` is a package designed to expose cryptographic recipes and -primitives to Python developers. - -It is currently in early development and isn't recommended for general usage -yet. It targets Python 2.6-2.7, Python 3.2+, and PyPy. +primitives to Python developers. Our goal is for it to be your "cryptographic +standard library". It supports Python 2.6-2.7, Python 3.2+, and PyPy. + +``cryptography`` includes both high level recipes, and low level interfaces to +common cryptographic algorithms such as symmetric ciphers, message digests and +key derivation functions. For example, to encrypt something with +``cryptography``'s high level symmetric encryption recipe: + +.. code-block:: pycon + + >>> from cryptography.fernet import Fernet + >>> # Put this somewhere safe! + >>> key = Fernet.generate_key() + >>> f = Fernet(key) + >>> token = f.encrypt(b"A really secret message. Not for prying eyes.") + >>> token + '...' + >>> f.decrypt(token) + 'A really secret message. Not for prying eyes.' You can find more information in the `documentation`_. - Discussion ~~~~~~~~~~ |