Replacing the crypt module in Windows

Carey Evans careye at spamcop.net
Mon Aug 18 21:43:15 EDT 2003


Jorge Godoy <godoy at metalab.unc.edu> writes:

> What do you use to replace the crypt module in Windows?

There are pure Python implementations of the MD5- and DES-based crypt
algorithms available from, respectively:

  http://www.sabren.net/code/python/crypt/    (by michal j wallace)
  http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/sw/  (by me)

The former should be quite a bit more secure.  It may also be faster
since it uses the md5 module internally, but I've never tested them.

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