pyca/cryptography
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Jan 14, 2026first mention
Oct 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I think one of the things that's interesting in the PyCA case is that it commits to doing a lot of cross-checking/policy work”
“pyca/cryptography is a really excellent cryptography library”
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“I trust the API design and test methodology of Cryptography and use it as a model to emulate”
library developer relying on Cryptography APIson “The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography 4 mentions
- eMudhra intermediate CA compromise 1 mention
Also written as PyCA cryptography. Data: pyca-cryptography.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“Python (pyca/cryptography) has full support”
“I think one of the things that's interesting in the PyCA case is that it commits to doing a lot of cross-checking/policy work”
“pyca/cryptography is a really excellent cryptography library”
“I trust the API design and test methodology of Cryptography and use it as a model to emulate”
“the X.509 path validation library that PyCA cryptography now uses”