[Tutor] encryption for files/passwords

[Ben Sherman]

On 5/18/07, Rohan Deshpande <rohan.deshpande at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> I am writing a small python script to maintain some passwords and
> identity info.  All the data is in an external file.  what is the best
> way to encrypt/decrypt this file's data using a key? I am new to
> encryption methods let alone how to do it in python.  I had a look at
> python-crypto, ezPyCrypto and yawPyCrypto but they seemed overkill?


If you only need to encrypt passwords, look at the crypt module - it does
one way password hashing.

Good luck!
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