PyCrypto

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The PyCrypto package is probably the most well known 3rd party cryptography package for Python. Sadly PyCrypto’s development stopped in 2012. Others have continued to release the latest version of PyCrypto so we can still get it for Python 3.5 if we don’t mind using a 3rd party’s binary.

Fortunately there is a fork of the project called PyCrytodome that is a drop-in replacement for PyCrypto.

You need Python 3.5 for Crypto and PyCrypto

How to install pycryptodome

To install it for Linux, we can use the following pip command:

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