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On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:03 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.
>
>
keystoneauth didn't actually use pycrypto even though it was in
test-requirements.txt, so I posted a change to remove it:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/443318/

 - Brant


> 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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- Brant
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