From 4107d6442fd0f32868e31ff61425ec8c43d1b400 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Sybren A. St?vel" Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 17:15:28 +0100 Subject: Added warning about security of the module --- rsa/__init__.py | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'rsa/__init__.py') diff --git a/rsa/__init__.py b/rsa/__init__.py index 754356e..adf5fc8 100755 --- 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" -- cgit v1.2.1