Securing passwords stored inside of a database field using Python

[Andreas Jung]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 05:50:08PM +0300, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, chris lamb wrote:
> > A one way encryption algorithm? If so what would be recommended by anyone<
> 
>    MD5 or SHA. Python has modules for both. Some databases can create
> hashes for passwords (MySQL can do it with both unix "broken DES" hash and
> MD5).

When it is neccessary to decrypt stored passwords you could try an algorithm
like IDEA. Maybe take a look at the mxCrypto or amkCrypto package for Python.
They implement the most popular crypto algorithms. But take care of the
US export controls for encryption software.

Andreas