Blake T. Garretson wrote: > I want to save some sensitive data (passwords, PIN numbers, etc.) to > disk in a secure manner in one of my programs. What is the > easiest/best way to accomplish strong file encryption in Python? Any > modern block cipher will do: AES, Blowfish, etc. I'm not looking for > public key stuff; I just want to provide a pass-phrase. > > I found a few modules out there, but they seem to be all but abandoned. > Most seem to have died several years ago. The most promising package > is A.M. Kuchling's Python Cryptography Toolkit > (http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html). > > Is this the defacto Python encryption solution? What does everyone > else use? Any other suggestions? The SSLCrypto package > (http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/SSLCrypto/) may be a good alternative > too, but I am not sure if it is actively maintained. > > Thanks, > Blake >
There's a DES implementation at http://home.pacific.net.au/~twhitema/des.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
