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Handy one liners for pycrypto

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import base64

from Crypto.Cipher import Blowfish


cipher = lambda: Blowfish.new('abc123')
encrypt = lambda c, s: base64.b64encode(c.encrypt(s))
decrypt = lambda c, e: c.decrypt(base64.b64decode(e))

c = cipher()
enc = encrypt(c, 'this is a secret')
dec = decrypt(c, enc)

Source: http://www.codekoala.com/blog/2009/aes-encryption-python-using-pycrypto/