[pycrypto] AES, python 2.7 vs 3

Dwayne Litzenberger dlitz at dlitz.net
Thu Feb 6 08:49:50 PST 2014


On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 03:51:06PM +0100, Mirko Dziadzka wrote:
>Hi
>
>Without testing or verifying:
>
>You should probably use bytes in Python 3, not characters.

Yeah, this is a known bug.   Under Python 3, PyCrypto should raise a 
TypeError in most places where unicode strings are used instead of 
bytes, but right now it just does weird things.  Sorry about that.

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