Fast DES for Python
Question: i am searching for compiled des implementation for python. M2Crypto don't work
for me with error message "ImportError: DLL load failed:". OpenSSLLight
installed.

Edit: ok, fixed with M2Crypto. For some reasons, if you select during the
installation of SSLLight that the libraries should be placed in the program
directory, they are not recognised by programs. I reinstalled openssllight
with placing the libs into windows dir, and now M2Crypto loads.


Answer: [Pycrypto](http://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/) supports DES/DES3 and has
[prebuilt Windows installers from
Voidspace](http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml#pycrypto). Quick
example:

    
    
    from Crypto.Cipher import DES
    des = DES.new('13371337', DES.MODE_ECB)
    des.encrypt('plaintxt')
    
    '\xeb\x9d\xe7~&\xb4fp'
    

