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| author | Heikki Toivonen <heikki@heikkitoivonen.net> | 2006-04-05 07:46:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Heikki Toivonen <heikki@heikkitoivonen.net> | 2006-04-05 07:46:37 +0000 |
| commit | 4583493560ff6dbad8b9ba6d3a63b6dfc38a0e99 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d47277038a7aef7a2fed5db059249c78b6efa43 | |
| parent | e0a1940f6f027ea4a4d02117f0c6ee758981b575 (diff) | |
| download | m2crypto-4583493560ff6dbad8b9ba6d3a63b6dfc38a0e99.tar.gz | |
Removed the caveat about PRNG because AFAIK we use what OpenSSL
provides and that should be good enough.
Removed references to other Python crypto software, because
they are easy to find and it would be strange to try and
maintain a list of other crypto software here.
git-svn-id: http://svn.osafoundation.org/m2crypto/trunk@405 2715db39-9adf-0310-9c64-84f055769b4b
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 18 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 14 deletions
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ M2Crypto = Python + OpenSSL + SWIG M2Crypto is a crypto and SSL toolkit for Python. -M2 stands for "me, too!" [1]_ +M2 stands for "me, too!" M2Crypto comes with the following: @@ -53,19 +53,9 @@ Note these caveats: between OpenSSL versions. (Multiple free's lead to crashes very quickly, so these should be relatively rare.) -- No memory locking/clearing for keys, passphrases, etc. - -- PRNG may not be CS [2]_ nor CS [3]_. +- No memory locking/clearing for keys, passphrases, etc. because AFAIK + Python does not provide the features needed. On the C (OpenSSL) side + things are cleared when the Python objects are deleted. Have fun! Your feedback is welcome. - - -.. [1] Similar software are Marc-Andre Lemburg's mxCrypto, and two earlier - Python interfaces to the SSL portion of SSLeay/OpenSSL. Since M2Crypto, - yet more OpenSSL wrappers and non-OpenSSL crypto toolkits for - Python have appeared. - -.. [2] Continuous seeding. - -.. [3] Cryptographically strong. |