I have a plain text file which I would like to protect in a very simple minded, yet for my purposes sufficient, way. I'd like to encrypt/convert it into a binary file in such a way that possession of a password allows anyone to convert it back into the original text file while not possessing the password one would only see the following with the standard linux utility 'file':
[fetchin...@fetch ~]$ file encrypted.data encrypted.data: data and the effort required to convert the file back to the original text file without the password would be equivalent to guessing the password. I'm fully aware of the security implications of this loose specification, but for my purposes this would be a good solution. What would be the simplest way to achieve this using preferably stock python without 3rd party modules? If a not too complex 3rd party module made it really simple that would be acceptable too. Cheers, Daniel -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
