[pycrypto] Pycrypto openssl interoperability

Legrandin gooksankoo at hoiptorrow.mailexpire.com
Fri Dec 17 10:18:28 CST 2010


Hi,

My guess is that the openssl option "-pass" allows you to enter
some arbitrary text from which the actual key is *derived*.
You should try to use "-K" instead of "-pass".

Legrandin

> Encrypt the file secrets.txt using openssl, AES 128bit CBC. The
> password is read from the file pass.txt:
> 
> openssl enc -aes-128-cbc -pass file:pass.txt -a -in secrets.txt -out
> secrets.txt.enc


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