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| author | Sybren A. St?vel <sybren@stuvel.eu> | 2011-08-01 20:53:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Sybren A. St?vel <sybren@stuvel.eu> | 2011-08-01 20:53:51 +0200 |
| commit | 32a90db15f702f6ad1282f018f12f9ecaac025e4 (patch) | |
| tree | abe3be1cecad4e87489a6fddad3fb5592558f44f /README.rst | |
| parent | e4a6315ccf86519f5e4d5547373d398b392c9d3c (diff) | |
| download | rsa-32a90db15f702f6ad1282f018f12f9ecaac025e4.tar.gz | |
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@@ -1,19 +1,23 @@ Pure Python RSA implementation ============================== -As an assignment for the University of Amsterdam we wrote a pure Python RSA -implementation. It's a module for calculating large primes, and RSA encryption, -decryption, signing and verification. It also includes generating public and -private keys. +Python-RSA is a pure-Python RSA implementation. It supports encryption +and decryption, signing and verifying signatures, and key generation +according to PKCS#1 version 1.5. It can be used as a Python library as +well as on the commandline. -Download and install using: +Download and install using:: pip install rsa +or:: + + easy_install rsa + or download it from the `Python Package Index`_. -The source code is maintained in a `Mercurial repository`_ and is licensed under -the `Apache License, version 2.0`_ +The source code is maintained in a `Mercurial repository`_ and is +licensed under the `Apache License, version 2.0`_ .. _`Mercurial repository`: https://bitbucket.org/sybren/python-rsa |