From 1abfac7909df31a5eabe29e9dfd23db55d867834 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 12:59:04 -0700
Subject: Start to document the architecture.

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+Architecture
+============
+
+.. warning::
+
+    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``.
+* ``cryptography``: This package contains higher level recipes, for example
+  "encrypt and then MAC".
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