Can anyone suggest a good crypto package?

Mike Driscoll kyosohma at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 15:23:16 EDT 2008


On Sep 4, 1:39 pm, Fett <FettMan... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I need a crypto package that works on windows with python 2.5. Can
> anyone suggest one for me?
>
> I have been searching for a couple days for a good cryptography
> package to use for public/private key encryption, at this point I
> would settle for symmetric even.
>
> Every encryption package I have found for python was either operating
> system specific (read *nix only):http://www.freenet.org.nz/ezPyCrypto/http://www.keyczar.org/
>
> There was one exception, this version was specifically built to run on
> any platform (yay), but the compiler for windows complained that I
> wasn't using python2.2 (though the package was said to only need 2.2
> or newer).
>
> Is there any crypto package that is actually written in python? I
> seriously don't care how slow it is.

How about M2Crypto: http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto#Downloads

Mike



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