>> I'm still using Python 2.4. In my code, I want to encrypt a password >> and at another point decrypt it. What is the standard way of doing >> encryption in python? Is it the Pycrypto module? > >Usually, one doesn't store clear-text passwords. Instead, use a >hash-algorithm like md5 or crypt (the former is in the standard lib, don't >know of the other out of my head) and hash the password, and store that >hash. > >If a user enters the password, use the same algorithm, and compare the >resulting hashes with the stored one. >
Have a look at the hashlib module. Should have everything you need. There's a write up in a recent episode of Doug Hellmann's most excellent "Python Module of the Week". http://blog.doughellmann.com/2008/01/pymotw-hashlib.html Cheers, Drea -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
