On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:00:01AM -0500, Adam Van Ymeren wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
> There is also a pull request pending from someone else that updates
> pyton-axolotl to use a newer python cryptography library rather than the
> deprecated python-pycrypto library.  That would also fix this issue and
> is a much better long term fix but also a more intrusive change.

I noticed that as well. Pycrypto is no longer maintained and has an
extremely serious bug that was never fixed in a released version:

https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/176

And the author seems to implicitly agree that people should stop using
it:

https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/173

So I added a TODO comment to the package, saying that we should remove
it:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/python-crypto.scm?id=12a130b0118c3f56e6337e011dc4a89f2671359a#n186

So, I recommend being careful how you use any package that depends on
pycrypto.