On Oct 4, 10:37 am, horridohobbyist <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess no one has ever used encryption (M2Crypto) in web2py. Maybe > the web2py community isn't as large as I had thought...
I've not had cause to use encryption (other than SSL/TLS) with web2py yet. I have another project where I needed (file storage) encryption and at the time I didn't want to deal with deployment issues (i.e. binary extensions) so I ended up using a pure Python blowfish implementation that someone else wrote (and cleaning it up for newer versions of Python). Speed was OK, it wasn't blindingly fast, and for kicks I ended up trying PyCrypto too, as the blowfish implementation is binary compatible with the pure Python version. I don't think MeTooCrypto was an option at the time so I'm not suggesting either one is better than the other, I didn't spend ages looking around. I've some code at http://code.google.com/p/pytombo/source/browse/trunk/src/pytombo/chi_io.py if you want to take a look and see how to use either depending on availability. If you are on Linux, e.g. Ubuntu easy_install or apt-get should be an easy way to install the required dependencies. Chris
