On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:30:12 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Thanks, this looks very simple too, but where is the decryption code? >> Wikipedia seems to suggest that encryption and decryption are both the >> same but running crypt on the output of crypt doesn't give back the >> original string. So probably I'm misunderstanding something. > > Yes, the nature of a stream cipher :)
It isn't limited to stream ciphers. You would have the same issue for a block cipher with chaining (i.e. *not* ECB mode). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
