Paul Rubin wrote: > Tobiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I browsed this subject and thought I might use the 'AES' cypher >> scheme to do this. Would this be a good choice? > > There's more to it than that, but yes, AES is a good underlying > algorithm.
Looking at the problem further, I am getting the idea that PGP, or GPG (Asymetric encryption) would be better, because then all of the software that has to *write* CC numbers, would not have to access the 'secret' key. You see we have to write the number often, but almost always only have to access (read) a masked number (4232********3435). PGP sounds great, but it seems like a huge subject to cover in a day or two. Is there a nice module for python that would let me do the most usual operations easily? I just want to make a key, hide it, and the use the public key to encrypt all future and past credit card numbers. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
