cryptography
brew install cryptography
v48.0.1
Apache-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
Python library providing cryptographic recipes and low-level primitives (symmetric/asymmetric encryption, hashing, signatures).
Why you might care
Standard-library choice for cryptographic operations in Python applications; wraps OpenSSL with a high-level API and adds pure-Python implementations. Dependency for many Python packages that need TLS, encryption, or digital signatures.
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Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
Links
- https://cryptography.io/en/latest/
- Brew formula source: Formula/c/cryptography.rb
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