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Heiko Wundram
Overview
========
Cryptopia is a Python public key cryptography library which was designed
around a new wrapper for the GMP library which supports a mutable integer
type and exports the gmp_rand* functionality. Currently it offers ElGamal and
RSA encryption/signing support and wrapped key classes for these two public
key cryptography algorithms which ease safe pickling/unpickling of
signatures/key data.
Cryptopia will be extended with key management support in the near future
(signing keys with other keys and a GPG-like trust system).
Cryptopia does not implement symmetric cyphers (such as Blowfish, etc.), and
probably never will (unless someone else volunteers to do the work
).
Dependencies
============
Cryptopia has been designed and tested on a *nix system, and as such I can
only be sure that it will build on a *nix system (more specific, Linux and
Solaris) with libgmp >= 4 installed. Otherwise, Cryptopia does not require
any special dependencies, except a working C compiler and an installation of
the Python runtime (distutils).
Building
========
python setup.py install
Download
========
To download Cryptopia and give it a shot go here:
http://www.heim-d.de/~heikowu/Crypto
License
=======
Cryptopia is licensed under the BSD license. Look into LICENSE (contained in
the archive) for more info.
Feedback
========
Mail me directly. I'd be grateful if I could hear some feedback on
building/using the library on other machines, esp. Windows.
Further comments
================
If anybody knows of a better name, feel free to contact me off list.
========
Cryptopia is a Python public key cryptography library which was designed
around a new wrapper for the GMP library which supports a mutable integer
type and exports the gmp_rand* functionality. Currently it offers ElGamal and
RSA encryption/signing support and wrapped key classes for these two public
key cryptography algorithms which ease safe pickling/unpickling of
signatures/key data.
Cryptopia will be extended with key management support in the near future
(signing keys with other keys and a GPG-like trust system).
Cryptopia does not implement symmetric cyphers (such as Blowfish, etc.), and
probably never will (unless someone else volunteers to do the work
).Dependencies
============
Cryptopia has been designed and tested on a *nix system, and as such I can
only be sure that it will build on a *nix system (more specific, Linux and
Solaris) with libgmp >= 4 installed. Otherwise, Cryptopia does not require
any special dependencies, except a working C compiler and an installation of
the Python runtime (distutils).
Building
========
python setup.py install
Download
========
To download Cryptopia and give it a shot go here:
http://www.heim-d.de/~heikowu/Crypto
License
=======
Cryptopia is licensed under the BSD license. Look into LICENSE (contained in
the archive) for more info.
Feedback
========
Mail me directly. I'd be grateful if I could hear some feedback on
building/using the library on other machines, esp. Windows.
Further comments
================
If anybody knows of a better name, feel free to contact me off list.