Missing rotor module

[Nick Vatamaniuc]

Unfortunately rotor has been deprecated but it hasn't been replaced
with anything reasonable as far as encryption goes -- there are just a
bunch of hashing funtions (sha, md5) only. If you need to replace rotor
all together I would sugest the crypto library from:

http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html

It has  good encryption algorithms like AES, IDEA and others.

I know it doesn't have rotor, because rotor is not a very good
encryption algorithm -- I still don't know why it was ever included in
Python. So refactor your code if you can to use AES for example.

But of course if you have bunch of data encrypted with rotor that your
program need to decrypt you can use this replacement found on
mail.python.org:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-January/261304.html
It is much slower because it was written in Python while the original
rotor was in C, and I am not sure if it is _exactly_ the same.

Good luck,
Nick V.


rony steelandt wrote:
> I'm in the midle of porting a python 1.5 application to 2.4
>
> I just discovered that the rotor encryption module isn't part anymore of
> the 2.4 distribution.
>
> Is there a way to add this module to 2.4, or what would be the simplest
> way to replace this.
> The existing application makes use of the rotor module everywhere, which
> means in a lot of modules.
> 
> Thanks for any ideas
> 
> Rony