Pycrypt: developing a password management utility

For many years I’ve used a Windows-based password management utility. After converting to macOS (the impetus was also password-related), I needed a solution that would run on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

While there are cloud-based and integrated password managers, I wanted a command-line utility to encrypt passwords using a simple file structure.

In this session, we first overview basic cryptographic concepts, then examine the use of Fernet, a component of the Python cryptography library, which provides a system for symmetric encryption/decryption of passwords stored in YAML files.

Who should attend? If you need to encrypt and decrypt some data using Python, this session shows how to symmetrically encrypt data in Python using the Fernet (AES) encryption.

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