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Welcome to ``cryptography``
===========================
.. warning::
``cryptography`` is very young, and very incomplete.
``cryptography`` is a Python library which exposes cryptographic primitives and
recipes.
Why a new crypto library for Python?
------------------------------------
We wanted to address a few issues with existing cryptography libraries in
Python:
* Lack of PyPy and Python 3 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
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.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
architecture
primitives/index
bindings/index
contributing
security
community
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