PyCryptodome is a self-contained Python package of low-level cryptographic primitives. It's a fork
of PyCrypto. It brings several enhancements with respect to the last official version of PyCrypto
(2.6.1), for instance:
* Authenticated encryption modes (GCM, CCM, EAX, SIV, OCB)
* Accelerated AES on Intel platforms via AES-NI
* Elliptic curves cryptography (NIST P-256 curve only)
* Better and more compact API (nonce and iv attributes for ciphers, automatic
generation of random nonces and IVs, simplified CTR cipher mode, and more)
* SHA-3 (including SHAKE XOFs) and BLAKE2 hash algorithms
* Salsa20 and ChaCha20 stream ciphers
* scrypt and HKDF
* Deterministic (EC)DSA
* Password-protected PKCS#8 key containers
* Shamir's Secret Sharing scheme
* Random numbers get sourced directly from the OS (and not from a CSPRNG in userspace)
* Cleaner RSA and DSA key generation (largely based on FIPS 186-4)
* Major clean ups and simplification of the code base
PyCryptodome is not a wrapper to a separate C library like OpenSSL. To the largest possible extent,
algorithms are implemented in pure Python. Only the pieces that are extremely critical to
performance (e.g. block ciphers) are implemented as C extensions.
Note: all modules are installed under the Cryptodome package to avoid conflicts with the PyCrypto
library.
This package provides the PyCryptodome test suite module (Cryptodome.SelfTest).
