[pycrypto] pycrypto issue

[Dwayne C. Litzenberger]

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can find the answers by searching the archives.

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 09:18:05PM -0700, h nguyen wrote:
>For the file SHA256.py , I copied from SHA and use sha256 function like 
>this
>try:
>    # The md5 module is deprecated in Python 2.6, so use hashlib when possible.
>    import hashlib
>    def new(data=""):
>        return hashlib.sha256(data)
>    digest_size = new().digest_size
>
>except ImportError:
>    from sha256 import *
>    import sha256

There is no need to do that.

>ImportError: cannot import name _counter
>
>I looked in folder Crypto.Util there's no _counter module...

PyCrypto is partly written in C (in the src/ directory) and partly written 
in Python.  You are using the Python parts and ignoring the C parts, which 
is why it's not working.  As I mentioned before, the parts in C will need 
to be compiled into machine code before they can be used.  You'll either 
need to build it, or you can get Michael Foord's pre-built binaries for 
Windows from his website:

     http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#pycrypto

>Do you know that paramiko works on Windows XP?

Yes, I have used paramiko on Windows XP before.

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