I’m writing this question + answer because I struggled a lot (maybe because of a lack of experience), got lost in many different ways of encrypting/decrypting things with node or python.
I just ran the following command:
I’m trying to build two functions using PyCrypto that accept two parameters: the message and the key, and then encrypt/decrypt the message.
OpenSSL provides a popular (but insecure – see below!) command line interface for AES encryption:
I’ve read every other google source and SO thread, with nothing working.
When I try to run app.py (Python 3.3, PyCrypto 2.6) my virtualenv keeps returning the error listed above. My import statement is just from Crypto.Cipher import AES. I looked for duplicates and you might say that there are some, but I tried the solutions (although most are not even solutions) and nothing worked.
I want to encrypt some data in python with PyCrypto.
