/pynacl

Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library

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PyNaCl

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PyNaCl is a Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography library, a crypto library with the stated goal of improving usability, security and speed.

Installation

PyNaCl relies on libsodium, a portable C library which can be compiled on a variety of systems. It may already be available from your package manager.

Once libsodium is installed, PyNaCl can be installed by:

$ python setup.py install

Features

  • Digital signatures
  • Secret-key encryption
  • Public-key encryption
  • HMAC (coming soon)