Package: python-crypto (2.0.1+dfsg1-1.2+etch0)

cryptographic algorithms and protocols for Python

A collection of cryptographic algorithms and protocols, implemented for use from Python. Among the contents of the package:

 * Hash functions: MD2, MD4.
 * Block encryption algorithms: AES, ARC2, Blowfish, CAST, DES, Triple-DES.
 * Stream encryption algorithms: ARC4, simple XOR.
 * Public-key algorithms: RSA, DSA, ElGamal, qNEW.
 * Protocols: All-or-nothing transforms, chaffing/winnowing.
 * Miscellaneous: RFC1751 module for converting 128-key keys
   into a set of English words, primality testing.

Tags: Software Development: Python Development, Libraries, Implemented in: Python, Role: Shared Library, Security: Cryptography