PyCryptodome is a fork of PyCrypto that brings enhancements on top of the now unmaintained PyCrypto library. This tutorial demonstrates using the library by encrypting strings and files using AES.

What is PyCryptodome?

PyCryptodome is a self-contained Python package of low-level cryptographic primitives that supports Python 2.6 and 2.7, Python 3.4 and newer, and PyPy.

PyCryptodome is a fork of PyCrypto that has been enhanced to add more implementations and fixes to the original PyCrypto library. Where possible, most of the algorithms in this library are implemented in pure Python; only pieces that are extremely critical to performance (e.g. block ciphers) are implemented as C extensions.

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