[openstack-dev] [requirements][trove][tatu][barbican][compass][daisycloud][freezer][fuel][nova][openstack-ansible][pyghmi][solum] Migration from pycrypto

Matthew Thode prometheanfire at gentoo.org
Wed Feb 14 19:59:29 UTC 2018


On 18-02-14 13:55:53, Sean McGinnis wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:09:47AM -0600, Matthew Thode wrote:
> > Development has stalled, (since 2014).  It's been forked but now would
> > be a good time to move to a more actively maintained crypto library like
> > cryptography.
> > 
> > Requirements wishes to drop pycrypto.  Let me know if there's anything
> > we can do to facilitate this.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
> 
> We did have a discussion on the ML, and I think a little at one of the PTGs,
> about the path forward for this. IIRC, there was one other potential supported
> package that was considered for an option, but we settled on cryptography as
> the recommended path forward to get off of pycrypto. I think it had to do with
> ease of being able to just drop in the new package with minimal affected code.
> 

Yep, I remember it, I'm not mentioning it because I'd like to focus on
moving to cryptography rather than move to the fork.

-- 
Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)
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