rotor alternative?

Dave Brueck dave at pythonapocrypha.com
Tue Nov 18 09:42:35 EST 2003


Robin wrote:
> It seems that the rotor module is being deprecated in 2.3, but there
> doesn't seem to be an obvious alternative. I'm using it just for
> obfuscation. It seems we have ssl available in 2.3 for sockets, but
> there seems no obvious way to use that from python code.
>
> Is an alternative to rotor planned?

I'm in the same boat - I wish rotor would stay because I commonly need a way to
keep the honest people honest. I'd prefer to use a standard (builtin) module,
but lacking that I've switched to using this AES module:

http://eevolved.com/cryptkit/index.php?page=5

Since I'm not going to great lengths to hide the key, it works out to be about
the same strength of encryption as rotor. ;-)

-Dave






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