/crx-appengine-packager/Crypto/build/lib.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5/Crypto/Cipher/__init__.py

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  1. """Secret-key encryption algorithms.
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  3. Secret-key encryption algorithms transform plaintext in some way that
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  4. is dependent on a key, producing ciphertext. This transformation can
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  5. easily be reversed, if (and, hopefully, only if) one knows the key.
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  7. The encryption modules here all support the interface described in PEP
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  8. 272, "API for Block Encryption Algorithms".
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  10. If you don't know which algorithm to choose, use AES because it's
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  11. standard and has undergone a fair bit of examination.
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  13. Crypto.Cipher.AES         Advanced Encryption Standard
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  14. Crypto.Cipher.ARC2        Alleged RC2
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  15. Crypto.Cipher.ARC4        Alleged RC4
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  16. Crypto.Cipher.Blowfish
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  17. Crypto.Cipher.CAST
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  18. Crypto.Cipher.DES         The Data Encryption Standard.  Very commonly used
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  19.                           in the past, but today its 56-bit keys are too small.
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  20. Crypto.Cipher.DES3        Triple DES.
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  21. Crypto.Cipher.IDEA
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  22. Crypto.Cipher.RC5
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  23. Crypto.Cipher.XOR         The simple XOR cipher.
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  24. """
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  26. __all__ = ['AES', 'ARC2', 'ARC4',
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  27.            'Blowfish', 'CAST', 'DES', 'DES3', 'IDEA', 'RC5',
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  29.            ]
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  31. __revision__ = "$Id: __init__.py,v 1.7 2003/02/28 15:28:35 akuchling Exp $"
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