rotor alternative?

[John J. Lee]

"Dave Brueck" <dave at pythonapocrypha.com> writes:

> 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
[...Dave has switched to AES]
> 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. ;-)

Quite.  I don't understand why it's deprecated.  We've known since the
fifties that the algorithm is broken, so wasn't it clear from the
start that this was for obfuscation, not strong encryption?  Shouldn't
we just add a warning to the docs (if there's not one there already)??


John