Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting

Sat Jun 27 00:05:12 EDT 2015

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Now you say that the application encrypts the data, except that the user can
> turn that option off.
>
> Just make the AES encryption mandatory, not optional. Then the user cannot
> upload unencrypted malicious data, and the receiver cannot read the data.
> That's two problems solved.

No, because another application could pretend to be the file-sending
application, but send unencrypted data instead of encrypted data.

-- Devin