[swift-evolution] Crypto routines as part of the core library

[Travis Beech]

It would seem to me that common crypto routines should become part of the core Swift libraries without having to rely on unknown third party libraries or bridging into the C based CommonCrypto lib. 

Just some things off the top of my head that we should be able to do easily in pure Swift is AES encryption, digests such as HMAC SHA1, dealing with certificates and keys, support for other encryption algorithms such as RSA. 

Am I completely off base for wanting this? These features exist in other languages such as Java and C#. 

Thank you,

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