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+Architecture
+============
+
+.. warning::
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+    Because ``cryptography`` is so young, much of this document is
+    aspirational, rather than documentation.
+
+``cryptography`` has three different layers:
+
+* ``cryptography.c``: This package contains bindings to low level cryptographic
+  libraries. Our initial target will be OpenSSL.
+* ``cryptography.primitives``: This packages contains low level algorithms,
+  things like ``AES`` or ``SHA1``. This is implemented on top of
+  ``cryptography.c``.
+* ``cryptography``: This package contains higher level recipes, for example
+  "encrypt and then MAC". This is implemented on top of
+  ``cryptography.primitives``.