Encryption and hashing

[Laszlo Nagy]

> For who knows any of criptography I comment that you can use
> algorithms as secure as Rijndael, Twofish, or Serpent with the CFB
> cipher mode. And for hash you can use RIPEMD, SHA-2 or WHIRLPOOL.
>   
As I recall, PyCrypto can also use these, and many others. And it can 
also do RSA.
> And the best is that there are wrappers for Python [5] [6].
>   
One advantage of PyCrypto is that it works on many platforms. If 
standard C extensions are not available, it will fall back to a pure 
python implementation. Well yes, sometimes it is slow. But it is also 
much easier to use than pyOpenSSL, for example. (BTW you forgot to 
mention some other popular ones, like pyOpenSSL, mcrypto2 etc.)

   Laszlo