[Python-ideas] secrets module -- secret.keeper?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:
> Will the secrets module offer any building blocks to actually protect a secret?
>
> e.g.,
>
> an easy way to encrypt a file with a given password?
> an encrypted datastore?

-100

These are *waayyyyy* too complicated and subtle problems to try to
handle in the stdlib. We cannot possibly do an acceptably good job
here.

> a getpass that works even in IDLE?

This sounds like a bug in getpass and/or IDLE that should just be fixed.

-n

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