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Cryptography tools for python 3

Asked 2011-01-03T09:15:37.863
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I'm writing a program in python 3 which needs encryption functions (at least aes and rsa). I've found PyCrypto which seems to work only on 2.x versions.

Is there any good tool available for python 3 or should I rather start translating my program to be compatible with python 2 (or any other solution) ?

Thank you

Update as mentioned below, PyCrypto is now available on py3k

python cryptography python-3.x pycrypto
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Crytographic Libraries are mostly numeric calculations and I don't know why py3k versions are not available yet.

  1. Here is pyDES available for Python 3.
  2. Here is AES algorithm implementation in Python 3. Ported from this py2k version
  3. Here is RSA algorithm implementation in Python 3. I ported it from this py2k version.

Please use them with caution as they just development programs implemented following the algorithm text. (That is, I am not sure of the rigor in the original python2 version). Also, all of them are pure python libraries, they would be slower than anything written using C-extensions ( and perhaps that is the reason, why py3k versions are getting delayed).

answered 2011-01-03T10:07:50.243

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