[pycrypto] Unicode?

[Dave Pawson]

I'm having a problem 'sharing' an encrypted file between
MSDOS and Linux.

so I thought I'd replace \nl in the plain text with a non ASCII
character prior to encryption.

encryptor = AES.new(key, AES.MODE_CBC, iv)
outfile.write(encryptor.encrypt(chunk))

gives me

 File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/Crypto/Cipher/blockalgo.py",
line 244, in encrypt
    return self._cipher.encrypt(plaintext)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2022' in
position 34: ordinal not in range(128)


It would seem I can't use non-ASCII characters, at least with AES, is
this right ?

If not, how to address it please?


regards


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