You should consider working on some of the PyCA projects, including any of cryptography, PyNaCl, PyOpenSSL. They are smart people with solid engineering practic

You should consider working on some of the PyCA projects, including any of cryptography, PyNaCl, PyOpenSSL. They are smart people with solid engineering practices and a lot of experience. The reason you should consider it is twofold: - Code is only good if it's used, and ideally, usable. - This gives you a great opportunity to learn a lot about OpenSSL in an environment that has more (resources for) mentorship and unit tests. https://www.github.com/pyca https://www.github.com/pyca Disclaimer: While I was around when it was founded and am still officially its resident cryptographer, I don't really do much of the work. I just occasionally show up and say "Frobenius" a lot.