Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> writes: > pyCrypto's license is the following (and is not dependent on any other > libraries): > =================================================================== > Distribute and use freely; there are no restrictions on further > dissemination and usage except those imposed by the laws of your > country of residence. This software is provided "as is" without > warranty of fitness for use or suitability for any purpose, express > or implied. Use at your own risk or not at all. > =================================================================== > > Incorporating the code into commercial products is permitted; you do > not have to make source available or contribute your changes back > (though that would be nice). > > That sounds Python compatible to me :) I think this problem is > solved. Crypto supports the following public key algorithms: > Public-key algorithms: RSA, DSA, ElGamal, qNEW. > > ElGamal is what PGP uses, IIRC. > > What's the procedure to convince Guido that Python should REALLY have > this module as part of any distribution that also includes PackMan? There are ghastly legal issues that obstruct crypto support (there have been threads on python-dev about this) and there's also a code quality/ease of maintenence issue about pyCrypto itself (I have no idea about it in this regard). Cheers, mwh -- And then the character-only displays went away (leading to increasingly silly graphical effects and finally to ads on web pages). -- John W. Baxter, comp.lang.python
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