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cryptg
This is a small native extension for Python 3 to help libraries that want to work with the Telegram API, which uses the uncommon AES-IGE mode for it.
Note that while this wrapper library is licensed under CC0, the Rust dependencies have their own license.
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Cryptographic utilities for Telegram.
We found that cryptg demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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