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 designed to support multiple cryptographic backends, but consumers rarely need this flexibility. Starting with version 3.1 backend arguments are optional and the default backend will automatically be selected if none is specified.

On older versions you can get the default backend by calling default_backend().

cryptography.hazmat.backends.default_backend()[source]
Returns:An object that provides at least CipherBackend, HashBackend, and HMACBackend.