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On 06/24/2015 02:44 AM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
> How about a random substitution cipher? This will be ultra-weak, but
> fast (using bytes.translate/bytes.maketrans) and seems to be the kind
> of thing you're asking for.
>
> -- Devin


I tried this out and it seems to be just what I need.  Thanks Devin!

It's pure Python, fast, and mangles the data sufficiently.

--Randall