python-nettle

Python bindings for the nettle low-level cryptographic library

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You'll need at least version 4 of nettle installed.

Building

python generator.py
uv build

Support for python 2 was dropped in 2025.1 2026.1 changed all classnames to pep8 CapWords. Sorry for the breaking change

Authors

• Henrik Rindlöw - Initial work

License

python-nettle is like Nettle dual licenced under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later, and the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 or later - see COPYINGv2, COPYINGv3 or COPYING.LESSERv3 for details

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Niels Möller for the Nettle library