REPOST: using codecs for encryption?

[Joshua Muskovitz]

This just in, from the top of my head...

Has anyone thought about implementing encryption libraries (des, pgp, &c) as
codecs in 2.2?  Would there be a way to pass a key (or keypair) to the
codec?  The codec would also have to maintain some sort of state somehow.

I just think it would be really cool to be able to say something like:

c = DESCodec(key)
plaintext = 'shh, here's the secret formula...'
ciphertext = plaintext.encode(c)
...
c.resetState()
plaintext = ciphertext.decode(c)

-- josh




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