How to encrypt and decrypt a string with a password with python

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I'm making a small password manager for personal use. I was wondering if i could create an encrypted string with a password. this password will be a string or byte. i also looked at the Fernet class from cryptography but I want to be abel to remember the password so that is no option. I also want to decrypt it.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '20 at 13:37

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Check out https://pypi.org/project/pycrypto/

Example from the site (which seems to be what you need):

>>> from Crypto.Cipher import AES
>>> obj = AES.new('This is a key123', AES.MODE_CBC, 'This is an IV456')
>>> message = "The answer is no"
>>> ciphertext = obj.encrypt(message)
>>> ciphertext
'\xd6\x83\x8dd!VT\x92\xaa`A\x05\xe0\x9b\x8b\xf1'
>>> obj2 = AES.new('This is a key123', AES.MODE_CBC, 'This is an IV456')
>>> obj2.decrypt(ciphertext)
'The answer is no'

answered Nov 15 '20 at 13:37

pigeon_the_programmer

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i tried but the pip install didn't work tried installing the things the error message told me but didn't work. – Rik Smits Nov 15 '20 at 14:09
Did you try installing the .tar.gz file and installing it from there? https://pypi.org/project/pycrypto/#files – pigeon_the_programmer Nov 15 '20 at 14:12
You also might want to check out https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41843266/microsoft-windows-python-3-6-pycrypto-installation-error – pigeon_the_programmer Nov 15 '20 at 14:14

How to encrypt and decrypt a string with a password with python

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