Reputation: 129
Is there a way to use python to encrypt/decrypt a file (something like Axcrypt)?
Upvotes: 4
Views: 7822
Reputation: 104
You can try this for encrypting as well as decrypting..
#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import nacl.secret
import nacl.utils
import base64
from pyblake2 import blake2b
import getpass
print "### ENCRYPTION"
key = blake2b(digest_size=16)
key.update(getpass.getpass("PASSWORD:"))
key = key.hexdigest()
print "key: %s" % key
box = nacl.secret.SecretBox(key)
# This is our message to send, it must be a bytestring as SecretBox will
# treat is as just a binary blob of data.
msg = b"whohooäööppöööo"
print "msg: %s" % msg
nonce = nacl.utils.random(nacl.secret.SecretBox.NONCE_SIZE)
print "nonce: %s" % nacl.encoding.HexEncoder.encode(nonce)
encrypted = box.encrypt(msg, nonce, encoder=nacl.encoding.HexEncoder)
print "cipher: %s " % encrypted
print "### DECRYPTION"
key = blake2b(digest_size=16)
key.update(getpass.getpass("PASSWORD:"))
key = key.hexdigest()
nonce = None
print "nonce: %s" % nonce
print "key: %s" % key
box = nacl.secret.SecretBox(key)
msg = encrypted
print "msg: %s" % msg
plain = box.decrypt(ciphertext=msg,encoder=nacl.encoding.HexEncoder)
print "plain: %s" % plain
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 16308
check http://github.com/slideinc/PyECC , http://sourceforge.net/projects/cryptopy/ and http://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/ (found all by search "crypto" at http://pypi.python.org/pypi )
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 1009
How about this SO Q&A, which talks about encrypting/decrypting with PGP?
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 9565
Go here in the python docs for modules available for encryption: http://docs.python.org/library/crypto.html
Upvotes: 0