On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Mel Wilson <mwil...@the-wire.com> wrote: > zigi wrote: > >> Hello, >> M2crypto >> >> __init__(self, alg, key, iv, op, key_as_bytes=0, d='md5', >> salt='12345678', i=1, padding=1) >> >> I wont write app, using M2crypto and I can not understand what are the >> arguments: >> key, iv, op, salt ? >> What they do ? > > I assume you're reading in <http://www.heikkitoivonen.net/m2crypto/api/> > about M2Crypto.EVP.Cipher. > > Epydoc claims another victim. > > I'm having a lot of trouble finding documentation. The obvious OpenSSL > pages are kind of thin, too. You might see some useful code in the EVP unit > tests m2crypto/tests/test_evp.py in the m2crypto installation.
Not intending to be rude, but being perfectly serious: as a general rule, if you don't know what an IV is you're probably getting yourself into a lot of trouble working with low-level crypto libraries. Two suggestions: 1. Describe what you're trying to do- I'll be able to help more if I know what you're actually going for. 2. Try keyczar. It's not perfect, but it's a lot easier to get right. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
