erikcw napisal(a): > Hi, > > I'm trying to devise a scheme to encrypt/obfuscate a short string that > basically contains the user's username and record number from the > database. I'm using this encrypted string to identify emails from a > user. (the string will be in the subject line of the email). > > I'm trying to figure out which approach I should use to encrypt the > data. The string will be less than 20 characters long, and I'd like > the encrypted version to be about the same size. > > I tried DES in the Crypto module, but the cipher text was to long to > be usable in this case. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks!
How about: >>> hashlib.sha256("[EMAIL PROTECTED]|2937267834").hexdigest()[:20] Regards, Marek -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list