On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:55:33 pm Martin v. Löwis wrote: > > Does it sound worthy enough to create a patch for and integrate > > into python itself? > > Probably not, given that people think that the algorithm itself is > fairly useless.
I would think that for most people, the threat model isn't "the CIA is reading my files" but "my little brother or nosey co-worker is reading my files", and for that, zip encryption with a good password is probably perfectly adequate. E.g. OpenOffice uses it for password-protected documents. Given that Python already supports ZIP decryption (as it should), are there any reasons to prefer the current pure-Python implementation over a faster version? -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
