Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> writes: > All algorithms in obfuscate are obsolete, insecure and only > interesting for people *that* want to get well educated in the history > of encryption.
Not true. Another use case is suggested by the chosen name for the library: to obfuscate text against casual human reading, while not making it at all difficult to decrypt by people who are motivated to do so. The classic example is rot-13 encryption of text in internet messages; it would be a failure of imagination to suggest there are not other, similar use cases. > Grab pycrypto, m2crypto or one of the other packages if you need a > minimum amount of security. Agreed. However, for cases that *don't* need security from determined attackers, I don't think those obviate the usefulness of this library. -- \ “Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature | `\ cannot be fooled.” —Richard P. Feynman | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list