Hashlib py26

[Robert Kern]

ShannonL at yogananda-srf.org wrote:
> This feels a bit silly, but I am trying to encrypt some simple text with 
> the new hashlib library and then decrypt it back into text.  I can do 
> this with M2Crypto RC4, but not the new hashlib.  Could someone give me 
> a quick example.

hashlib does not do encryption. It implements cryptographic hash functions 
which, while related to encryption algorithms and sometimes are a primitive 
component of such algorithms, do not actually encrypt and decrypt messages.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco