> In that case, you aren't doing cryptography in Python. You're using cryptography in Python.
One of the great things about the Python community is that we don't have these kinds of artificial hangups. You just solve the problem, and if part of the solution involves something that someone wrote in a different programming language, that's fine.
Earlier this year, I implemented ECIES in Python. Not a very complicated algorithm, but it still needed to be done. So there is C involved in the underlying EC and AES implementations, big deal, I don't see how that should disqualify my ECIES work from being "doing cryptography".
One of the great things about the Python community is that we don't have these kinds of artificial hangups. You just solve the problem, and if part of the solution involves something that someone wrote in a different programming language, that's fine.
Earlier this year, I implemented ECIES in Python. Not a very complicated algorithm, but it still needed to be done. So there is C involved in the underlying EC and AES implementations, big deal, I don't see how that should disqualify my ECIES work from being "doing cryptography".