PyCrypto
Let's learn about PyCrypto and how it can be used.
The PyCrypto
package is probably the most well known 3rd party
cryptography package for Python. Sadly PyCrypto
’s development stopped in 2012.
Others have continued to release the latest version of PyCrypto
so we can still get it for Python 3.5 if we don’t mind using a 3rd party’s binary.
Fortunately there is a fork of the project called PyCrytodome
that is a
drop-in replacement for PyCrypto
.
You need Python 3.5 for
Crypto
andPyCrypto
How to install pycryptodome
To install it for Linux, we can use the following pip
command:
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