I am looking to set up a hardened box that will be able to store information, but after we ask it to generate fresh keys and credentials, the box alone can access the plaintext of stored information but we won't know of any way we could access the plaintext information without either breaking the (hardened) OS or breaking strong encryption.<br>
<br>I am looking for basic asymmetric encryption available in Python; I'd imagine that would mean something like GPG or PGP, were such available in Python.<br><br>As far as the encryption side, <a href="http://docs.python.org/library/crypto.html">http://docs.python.org/library/crypto.html</a> offers message digests only and says to see <a href="http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html">http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html</a> for a fuller suite. <a href="http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html">http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html</a> says that it is not being maintained and to check <a href="http://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/">http://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/</a> for current development, but the new page in turn says that it's still working towards a release and people can download the dated/buggy library from <a href="http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html">http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html</a> ; I assume that means that for production purposes I should be looking at <a href="http://www.amk.ca/files/python/crypto/pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz">http://www.amk.ca/files/python/crypto/pycrypto-2.0.1.tar.gz</a> .<br clear="all">
<br>I'd welcome suggestions on libraries/algorighms I should be using for asymmetric encryption to be able to say "We made this box as secure as we can and now we don't know how to access the sensitive plaintext that it is securing and using to secure requests."<br>
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