[pycrypto] Pickling AES cipher objects - any reasons not to support this?

[Pearu Peterson]

Hi,

Currently pickling cipher objects fail (Pycrypto v2.6):

>>> import pickle
>>> from Crypto.Cipher import AES
>>> cipher = AES.new('mysecret'*2)
>>> dump=pickle.dumps(cipher)
PicklingError: Can't pickle '_AES' object: <_AES object at 0x1fe0bd0>

I wonder if there are any fundamental reasons why pickling cipher objects
cannot
be pickled? Otherwise I would look into implementing pickling support for
cipher objects.

Background:
I am using Pycrypt in web2py and I need to temporarily store cipher
information within a session
without opening any security holes. I would presume that storing cipher
object is safer (would it be?)
than storing an encryption key used to create the cipher object.

Thanks,
Pearu
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