pycrypto/pycrypto

Health v2 · maintenance only

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

PyCrypto is the Python Cryptography Toolkit, providing secure hash functions (SHA256, RIPEMD160) and encryption algorithms (AES, DES, RSA, ElGamal) plus a random number generator. It is officially unmaintained, obsolete, and contains known security vulnerabilities.

Use cases

• encrypt and decrypt data with AES in Python
• compute SHA256 hashes of messages
• generate RSA key pairs and encrypt data
• generate cryptographically secure random bytes
• build secure client-server communication with encryption
• prototype cryptographic algorithms in Python

When to choose

• you are studying or maintaining legacy code that already depends on PyCrypto 2.x
• you need the historical API for reference purposes

When to avoid

• starting any new Python project requiring cryptography - use the 'cryptography' package instead
• existing PyCrypto-dependent code where a drop-in replacement is acceptable - use PyCryptodome
• any security-sensitive production system, since PyCrypto has known vulnerabilities

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

cryptography security security developer-tools python cross-platform deprecated encryption hashing aes rsa unmaintained

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