Migrate from pycrypto
Stem uses pycrypto as an optional dependency to validate descriptor signatures. Seems pycrypto is no longer maintained.
Quick search comes up with cryptography and pycryptodome as some possible alternatives.
Stem uses pycrypto as an optional dependency to validate descriptor signatures. Seems pycrypto is no longer maintained.
Quick search comes up with cryptography and pycryptodome as some possible alternatives.
Looking into this today. I suspect that replacement using the cryptography library will be quite straightforward. I'll post a public branch of my work when I have results to share.
https://github.com/patrickod/stem/pull/2 replaces pycrypto with the cryptography library which is produced by the same Python Cryptography Authority that develops the pynacl library that we're using in #21558 (closed)
Trac:
Status: new to needs_review
Perfect, thanks Patrick! Great work, very much appreciated.
Pushed with a few minor tweaks.
Trac:
Status: needs_review to closed
Resolution: N/A to implemented
closed
mentioned in issue #21558 (closed)