Introduction to Cryptography with PyCrypto

author: kyle isom [email protected]

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• Github page
• Leanpub

This is the repository for an intro to crypto using PyCrypto. It is aimed at introducing basic cryptography topics to programmers who are unfamiliar with cryptography. It uses the PyCrypto library.

The tutorial is in the doc/ folder, where there is a LaTeX source file and a Makefile to build the PDF and (eventually the markdown file). I've

It includes a library of sample code to illustrate use of the PyCrypto library as well as a tutorial. The sample code is purposefully simple to illustrate clearly how to use the software.

Included source files (in src/):

secretkey.py	secret key cryptographic functions
publickey.py	public key cryptographic functions

Contributors:

• zenmower provided grammar, spelling, and readability critiques.
• Kim Lidström provided spelling critiques.
• Erik Musick provided grammar and spelling critiques.