[openstack-dev] [requirements] pycrypto is dead, long live pycryptodome... or cryptography...

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Wed Mar 8 19:29:32 UTC 2017


Ack thanks Matthew!

On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Matthew Thode <prometheanfire at gentoo.org> wrote:
> I'm aware, iirc it was brought up when pysaml2 had to be fixed due to a
> CVE.  This thread is more looking for a long term fix.
>
> On 03/08/2017 01:11 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
>> Matthew,
>>
>> Please see the last time i took inventory:
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/pycryptodome+owner:dims-v
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dims
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Matthew Thode <prometheanfire at gentoo.org> wrote:
>>> So, pycrypto upstream is dead and has been for a while, we should look
>>> at moving off of it for both bugfix and security reasons.
>>>
>>> Currently it's used by the following.
>>>
>>> barbican, cinder, trove, glance, heat, keystoneauth, keystonemiddleware,
>>> kolla, openstack-ansible, and a couple of other smaller places.
>>>
>>> Development of it was forked into pycryptodome, which is supposed to be
>>> a drop in replacement.  The problem is that due to co-installability
>>> requirements we can't have half of packages out there using pycrypto and
>>> the other half using pycryptodome.  We'd need to hard switch everyone as
>>> both packages install into the same namespace.
>>>
>>> Another alternative would be to use something like cryptography instead,
>>> though it is not a drop in replacement, the migration would be able to
>>> be done piecemeal.
>>>
>>> I'd be interested in hearing about migration plans, especially from the
>>> affected projects.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
>>>
>>>
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