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Re: Public key encryption example.

From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Public key encryption example.
Date 2015-11-19 11:04 +1100
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Vincent Davis <vincent@vincentdavis.net> writes:
>> I am looking for the "simplest" example of sending(encrypting) and
>> receiving(decrypting) using public key encryption. I am think of something
>> along the lines of having all the keys in local files and saving and
>> reading the message from a local file.
>
> It's very easy to make mistakes doing stuff like that.  Your simplest
> bet is to shell out to GPG or something comparable.

It's not that hard to pull up a library. I've never done it in Python, though.

ChrisA

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Public key encryption example. Vincent Davis <vincent@vincentdavis.net> - 2015-11-18 16:18 -0700
  Re: Public key encryption example. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-11-18 15:56 -0800
    Re: Public key encryption example. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 11:04 +1100
    Re: Public key encryption example. Vincent Davis <vincent@vincentdavis.net> - 2015-11-18 19:22 -0700

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