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On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 06:37:02AM -0500, Sean McGinnis wrote:
> We had a discussion a few months back around what to do for cryptography
> since pycrypto is basically dead [1]. After some discussion, at least on
> the Cinder project, we decided the best way forward was to use the
> cryptography package instead, and work has been done to completely remove
> pycrypto usage.
> 
> It all seemed like a good plan at the time.
> 
> I now notice that for the python-cinderclient jobs, there is a pypy job
> (non-voting!) that is failing because the cryptography package is not
> supported with pypy.
> 
> So this leaves us with two options I guess. Change the cryto library again,
> or drop support for pypy.
> 
> I am not aware of anyone using pypy, and there are other valid working
> alternatives. I would much rather just drop support for it than redo our
> crypto functions again.
> 
> Thoughts? I'm sure the Grand Champion of the Clients (Monty) probably has
> some input?
> 
> Sean
> 

That missing reference:

[1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-March/113568.html
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