> Crypt is particularly painful, since removing it will effectively cryptoshred user password databases. What do you mean by that? Anyone interacting with pass

> Crypt is particularly painful, since removing it will effectively cryptoshred user password databases. What do you mean by that? Anyone interacting with passwords on Linux, macOS, etc. has needed to use PAM anyway for decades. If you are building some kind of network app and just tossing passwords through crypt() you are going to have a much worse time on a security audit than you will installing a single python module.