[pycrypto] the sad state of pycrypto

[Mads Kiilerich]

Stefan Spoettl wrote, On 11/08/2008 09:48 PM:
> To fill the wide algorithmic gap of pycrypt I propose a look at 
> Crypto++ Library of Wei Dai (http://www.cryptopp.com). Crypto++ is 
> licensed like pycrypt and recommanded by the NIST. In this C++ library 
> could be found all to fill the gap. But this library has a damned ugly 
> structur and contains more than 333 file. So it will be a lot of work 
> to extract the useful things.

Ugly or not, it is my impression that Crypto++ has a good reputation and 
deserves it. It would be a good base, but how would forking it - in your 
opinion - be an improvement?

Inventing own crypto algorithms or implementations is always bad in 
itself. Other factors might however make it necessary or worthwhile 
(factors such as python-cryptos existing and used simple codebase with 
proper licensing).

If you like Crypto++ then why not use it with an appropriate wrapper? 
Why not use Zookos pycryptopp? Only because of the licensing?

/Mads

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