I think that would be very interesting thay Python would have a module for working on base 96 too. [1]
It could be converted to base 96 the digests from hashlib module, and random bytes used on crypto (to create the salt, the IV, or a key). As you can see here [2], the printable ASCII characters are 94 (decimal code range of 33-126). So only left to add another 2 characters more; the space (code 32), and one not-printable char (which doesn't create any problem) by last. [1] http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Modules/binascii.c [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
