Encryption with Python?
Ivan Voras
ivoras at fer.hr
Fri May 6 11:07:22 EDT 2005
Blake T. Garretson wrote:
> I want to save some sensitive data (passwords, PIN numbers, etc.) to
> disk in a secure manner in one of my programs. What is the
> easiest/best way to accomplish strong file encryption in Python? Any
> modern block cipher will do: AES, Blowfish, etc. I'm not looking for
> public key stuff; I just want to provide a pass-phrase.
There's a pure python Blowish implementation at:
http://bofh.concordia.ca/blowfish.py
(It looks like you'll have to divide your data in 8 byte blocks
yourself, and pad the last block)
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