Le Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:22:26 -0700, Nick Vatamaniuc a écrit : > Unfortunately rotor has been deprecated but it hasn't been replaced > with anything reasonable as far as encryption goes -- there are just a > bunch of hashing funtions (sha, md5) only. If you need to replace rotor > all together I would sugest the crypto library from: > > http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html > > It has good encryption algorithms like AES, IDEA and others. > > I know it doesn't have rotor, because rotor is not a very good > encryption algorithm -- I still don't know why it was ever included in > Python. So refactor your code if you can to use AES for example. > > But of course if you have bunch of data encrypted with rotor that your > program need to decrypt you can use this replacement found on > mail.python.org: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-January/261304.html > It is much slower because it was written in Python while the original > rotor was in C, and I am not sure if it is _exactly_ the same. > > Good luck, > Nick V. > > > rony steelandt wrote: >> I'm in the midle of porting a python 1.5 application to 2.4 >> >> I just discovered that the rotor encryption module isn't part anymore of >> the 2.4 distribution. >> >> Is there a way to add this module to 2.4, or what would be the simplest >> way to replace this. >> The existing application makes use of the rotor module everywhere, which >> means in a lot of modules. >> >> Thanks for any ideas >> >> Rony
Thank you Nick At least I can read the existing data. i'll evaluate if i should continu to use this or implement another encryption. Rony -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list