>>>>> "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> (DBR) wrote:
>DBR> Jean-Claude Neveu schrieb: >>> I'm looking for a recommendation about encryption/decryption packages for >>> Python. >>> >>> I'm working on a project that will require me to store some values in a >>> database in encrypted format. I'll be storing them from a PHP script and >>> retrieving them (decrypting them) using Python. I'm currently using PHP's >>> mcrypt package to encrypt the values, and I'm using AES for encryption, >>> so something AES-compatible would be ideal. However, the project is at >>> the development stage so I can easily change how I'm encrypting things in >>> PHP if there is a compelling reason on the Python side of things to do >>> so. >DBR> With PyCrypto[1] you have a wide range of choices, amongst others AES. >DBR> If that's the best algorithm, or even the best python-package to implement >DBR> it, I don't know. >DBR> [1] http://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/ Pycrypto had been stalled in development. The latest release was in 2005. There is now a new developer and that it were the link above goes, but he has not yet released anything. so you will have to do with the 2005 release. There is an alternative library: m2crypto (http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto). It is built on top of OpenSSL which is available for most platforms that have Python whereas Pycrypto has its own C implementations of crypto algorithms. M2crypto has a recent release. Also I think because OpenSSL is widely used, its vulnerabilities are easier detected and corrected, whereas I don't think that is the case for Pycrypto. M2crypto is much bigger than you need for this project, however. If that doesn't bother you I would recommend it. -- Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> URL: http://pietvanoostrum.com [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4] Private email: p...@vanoostrum.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
