Incompatibility with python 2.7.12

[raccoon4me]

Hi, picture worth thousand word, so i'll try to be quick:

PYTHON 2.7.9

Python 2.7.9 (default, Mar 1 2015, 12:57:24)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

from SimpleAES import SimpleAES
aes = SimpleAES("isdefinitelynot4u2no")
aes.decrypt("U2FsdGVkX1+eUdcEgzX6WUVO0xmuShSzlHWHlZVoVC8=")
'codewie\n'

PYTHON 2.7.12

+Python 2.7.12 (default, Jun 29 2016, 08:57:23)
[GCC 5.3.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

from SimpleAES import SimpleAES
aes = SimpleAES("isdefinitelynot4u2no")
aes.decrypt("U2FsdGVkX1+eUdcEgzX6WUVO0xmuShSzlHWHlZVoVC8=")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SimpleAES/init.py", line 71, in decrypt
raise DecryptionError('Could not decrypt.')
SimpleAES.exceptions.DecryptionError: Could not decrypt.

Adding the fact that we can't encrypt either

Python 2.7.12 (default, Jun 29 2016, 08:57:23)
[GCC 5.3.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

from SimpleAES import SimpleAES
key = 'Some arbitrary bytestring.'
aes = SimpleAES(key)
aes.encrypt('My secret plaintext data')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/SimpleAES/init.py", line 54, in encrypt
raise EncryptionError('Could not encrypt.')
SimpleAES.exceptions.EncryptionError: Could not encrypt.

Could you have a look at it, you rely on pycrypto, so could it be this library that is failing?

Thanks and Regards

[nvie]

This project is pretty old and won't be maintained further. For much better (!) symmetric encryption, I advise to take a look at the cryptography package: it's super friendly!

Here's an API that offers the same simple API: https://cryptography.io/en/latest/fernet/

[raccoon4me]

Thanks for your return, i will check it out :)