Danger
This is a “Hazardous Materials” module. You should ONLY use it if you’re 100% absolutely sure that you know what you’re doing because this module is full of land mines, dragons, and dinosaurs with laser guns.
Backends¶
Getting a backend¶
cryptography was originally designed to support multiple backends, but
this design has been deprecated.
You can get the default backend by calling default_backend().
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cryptography.hazmat.backends.default_backend()¶ - Returns
An object that provides at least
CipherBackend,HashBackend, andHMACBackend.