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authorSybren A. Stüvel <sybren@stuvel.eu>2011-01-09 17:15:28 +0100
committerSybren A. Stüvel <sybren@stuvel.eu>2011-01-09 17:15:28 +0100
commit707ce33f66e996dc5c6a4a456e40f152cee240bb (patch)
tree158526f27daaaacce219e62a134b1e6c59d7161c
parent4e167698df4231ffa74d4bfd1daef966b0103cdf (diff)
downloadrsa-git-707ce33f66e996dc5c6a4a456e40f152cee240bb.tar.gz
Added warning about security of the moduleversion-2.0
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diff --git a/rsa/__init__.py b/rsa/__init__.py
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--- a/rsa/__init__.py
+++ b/rsa/__init__.py
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
Module for calculating large primes, and RSA encryption, decryption,
signing and verification. Includes generating public and private keys.
+
+WARNING: this implementation does not use random padding, compression of the
+cleartext input to prevent repetitions, or other common security improvements.
+Use with care.
+
"""
__author__ = "Sybren Stuvel, Marloes de Boer, Ivo Tamboer, and Barry Mead"