[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello - > > I'm still using Python 2.4. In my code, I want to encrypt a password > and at another point decrypt it. What is the standard way of doing > encryption in python? Is it the Pycrypto module?
Usually, one doesn't store clear-text passwords. Instead, use a hash-algorithm like md5 or crypt (the former is in the standard lib, don't know of the other out of my head) and hash the password, and store that hash. If a user enters the password, use the same algorithm, and compare the resulting hashes with the stored one. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
