crypt module for windows? - fcrypt.py

Carey Evans c.evans at clear.net.nz
Fri Jan 26 17:45:30 EST 2001


Ross Lazarus <rerla at channing.harvard.edu> writes:

> I spent some more time with google and found
> http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/sw/
> which has a link to fcrypt.py - it does exactly what's needed and is
> pure python - probably slower than a dll wrapper but it's fine for what
> I need. 

Definitely slower - in my tests, the Python binding to glibc's crypt()
function is more than 25 times as fast as my fcrypt.py.  This
shouldn't be a problem unless you want to crack passwords, though.

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