pyca/cryptography

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.
• Cryptography - Provides cryptographic primitives and secure recipes.
• Security And Privacy - Library for cryptographic primitives.

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