TripleSec 0.3

a Python implementation of TripleSec

A Python port of the TripleSec library. See also the JS implementation.

Compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3.

Installation

pip install TripleSec

Usage

Instantiate a triplesec.TripleSec(key=None) object, with or without a key (if omitted it will have to be specified at each use), then use the encrypt(message, key=None) and decrypt(ciphertext, key=None) methods.

All values must be binary strings (str on Python 2, bytes on Python 3)

Shortcuts

The (unkeyed) functions encrypt and decrypt are exposed at the module level.

Command line tool

TripleSec offers a triplesec command line tool to encrypt and decrypt messages from the terminal.

Here is the help:

Command-line TripleSec encryption-decryption tool

usage: triplesec [-h] [-b | --hex] [-k KEY] {enc|dec} [data]

positional arguments:
  {enc|dec}          enc: encrypt and sign a message with TripleSec; by
                     default output a hex encoded ciphertext (see -b and
                     --hex) -- dec: decrypt and verify a TripleSec ciphertext
  data               the TripleSec message or ciphertext; if not specified it
                     will be read from stdin; by default ciphertexts will be
                     considered hex encoded (see -b and --hex)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  -b, --binary       consider all input (key, plaintext, ciphertext) to be
                     plain binary data and output everything as binary data -
                     this turns off smart decoding/encoding - if you pipe
                     data, you should use this
  --hex              consider all input (key, plaintext, ciphertext) to be hex
                     encoded; hex encode all output
  -k KEY, --key KEY  the TripleSec key; if not specified will check the
                     TRIPLESEC_KEY env variable, then prompt the user for it

API

Sphinx documentation coming soon.

Example

>>> import triplesec
>>> x = triplesec.encrypt(b"IT'S A YELLOW SUBMARINE", b'* password *')
>>> print(triplesec.decrypt(x, b'* password *').decode())
IT'S A YELLOW SUBMARINE

>>> from triplesec import TripleSec
>>> T = TripleSec(b'* password *')
>>> x = T.encrypt(b"IT'S A YELLOW SUBMARINE")
>>> print(T.decrypt(x).decode())
IT'S A YELLOW SUBMARINE