Since that I'm working to let encrypt/hash data in the data base of my projects I have been looking for libraries and/or wrappers. So I want give my feedback about it.
In the first I found PyCrypto [1] but I see any problems: * I think that isn't been maintained because the last modification of its web was on 30 Sep 2006 * Since that has not been uploaded to SourceForge [2] we cann't know when was released the last version * There algorithms more secure and modern that it hasn't. Then, I found 2 great C libraries that are being maintained and updated with many algorithms. They're MCrypt [3] and MHash [4], and both have released the last version on this year. For who knows any of criptography I comment that you can use algorithms as secure as Rijndael, Twofish, or Serpent with the CFB cipher mode. And for hash you can use RIPEMD, SHA-2 or WHIRLPOOL. And the best is that there are wrappers for Python [5] [6]. For if anybody is interested on playing with them: In the first you need the headers. In Debian/Ubuntu: $ sudo apt-cache install libmcrypt-dev libmhash-dev $ wget http://labix.org/download/python-mcrypt/python-mcrypt-1.1.tar.gz $ wget http://labix.org/download/python-mhash/python-mhash-1.4.tar.gz $ tar xzf python-mcrypt*.tar.gz; tar xzf python-mhash*.tar.gz $ cd python-mhash*; sudo python setup.py install; cd .. $ cd python-mcrypt*; sudo python setup.py install; cd.. [1] http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycrypto [3] http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/ [4] http://mhash.sourceforge.net/ [5] http://labix.org/python-mcrypt [6] http://labix.org/python-mhash -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
