On Monday 30 July 2007 18:59:46 Jim Steil wrote:
> I'm wondering if TG has a utility that I can use to encrypt a string
> value that I'm storing in my database.  Ideally I'd build the

It has all Python modules at its "hand". :-)

> encryption/decryption into my SO model but don't know if there are any
> encryption functions included in TG or not.  I am currently using the

There are some, yes.  On your identity provider.

> identity encryption to encrypt my passwords in my db, but in this case
> would need to be able to decrypt an encrypted string as well.  I've done

Then you can't use any hash function.  Those are what TG have.  You'll have to 
use a different module and different code.

> some googling and see that pycrypt seems to be a regularly used python
> tool for encryption.  Before I go the route of importing that into my
> model and putting in the required code, I thought I run it by the TG
> list and see if people would recommend implementing this in a different
> way.

I dunno what pycrypt offers on this area...  What algorithms do you have in 
mind?



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