How to obscure a password

[Rene Pijlman]

Batista, Facundo:
>So, is there a module to obscure the password text in a secure way?

You can only obscure a password in an obscure way, not in a secure way.

>I can't hash it (with md5 or something), because I not need to compare the
>password the user enters with a previous one.
>
>I need to restore the password later and use it as if the user just entered
>it.

I use rotor for that.
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-rotor.html

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René Pijlman