pyca/cryptography
Cryptography
This project is a Python cryptography library that provides a collection of cryptographic primitives and high-level recipes for implementing secure encryption and authentication. It functions as a symmetric encryption toolkit and a cryptographic hash provider, offering both a low-level cryptographic interface for building custom protocols and high-level tools for securing data.
The library covers a broad range of security capabilities, including symmetric data encryption, the derivation of cryptographic keys from passwords or secret values, and data integrity verification through the generation of message digests. It allows for the implementation of cryptographic primitives to facilitate secure authentication and encryption tasks.
Features
- Symmetric Encryption - Provides high-level recipes and low-level interfaces for securing information using symmetric encryption algorithms.
- Python Cryptography - A comprehensive Python library for implementing secure encryption and authentication using cryptographic primitives.
- Cryptographic Digests - Generates cryptographic message digests to verify data integrity and ensure information has not been altered.
- Cryptographic Primitives - Provides fundamental cryptographic building blocks for implementing secure encryption and authentication tasks.
- Key Derivation Functions - Implements standard key derivation functions to transform passwords or secret values into strong cryptographic keys.
- Integrity Verifications - Implements mechanisms for detecting unauthorized data alterations using cryptographic hashes and digests.
- C Extension Interfaces - Uses C extension interfaces to bind Python code to low-level libraries for high-performance cryptographic operations.
- Foreign Function Interfaces - Implements a foreign function interface using CFFI to bridge the Python runtime with native compiled binaries.
- Cryptographic Backends - Provides an abstraction layer that delegates core cryptographic logic to external libraries like OpenSSL.
- Cryptographic Implementation Tools - Offers tools to build custom authentication and encryption implementations by combining low-level primitives.
- API Design Patterns - Organizes functionality into low-level primitives and high-level recipes to prevent common implementation errors.
- Parameter Type Enforcement - Enforces strict parameter type enforcement to reduce runtime security vulnerabilities in cryptographic operations.
- Criptografía - Provides cryptographic primitives and secure recipes.
- Seguridad y privacidad - Library for cryptographic primitives.
