Re: Missing rotor module

2006-07-26 Thread rony steelandt
Le Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:22:26 -0700, Nick Vatamaniuc a écrit : Unfortunately rotor has been deprecated but it hasn't been replaced with anything reasonable as far as encryption goes -- there are just a bunch of hashing funtions (sha, md5) only. If you need to replace rotor all together I would

Missing rotor module

2006-07-25 Thread rony steelandt
I'm in the midle of porting a python 1.5 application to 2.4 I just discovered that the rotor encryption module isn't part anymore of the 2.4 distribution. Is there a way to add this module to 2.4, or what would be the simplest way to replace this. The existing application makes use of the rotor

Re: Missing rotor module

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Rubin
rony steelandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to add this module to 2.4, or what would be the simplest way to replace this. The existing application makes use of the rotor module everywhere, which means in a lot of modules. Thanks for any ideas It's still in the 1.5 distro and

Re: Missing rotor module

2006-07-25 Thread Nick Vatamaniuc
Unfortunately rotor has been deprecated but it hasn't been replaced with anything reasonable as far as encryption goes -- there are just a bunch of hashing funtions (sha, md5) only. If you need to replace rotor all together I would sugest the crypto library from:

Re: Missing rotor module

2006-07-25 Thread skip
Nick I still don't know why it was ever included in Python. It was another time and place altogether than the world we live in today. Python was a much smaller language and had a much smaller following. Concerns about security were minimal (relative to today anyway). Skip --

Re: Missing rotor module

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Rubin
Nick Vatamaniuc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Unfortunately rotor has been deprecated but it hasn't been replaced with anything reasonable as far as encryption goes -- there are just a bunch of hashing funtions (sha, md5) only. If you need to replace rotor all together I would sugest the crypto