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Python-RSA is a pure-Python RSA implementation. It supportsencryption and decryption, signing and verifying signatures, and keygeneration according to PKCS#1 version 1.5. It can be used as a Pythonlibrary as well as on the commandline. The code was mostly written bySybren A. Stüvel.

Documentation can be found at thePython-RSA homepage. For all changes, checkthe changelog.

Download and install using:

pip install rsa

or download it from thePython Package Index.

The source code is maintained atGitHub and islicensed under theApache License, version 2.0

Version 4.0 was the last version to support Python 2 and 3.4. Version 4.1 is compatible with Python 3.5+ only.

Version 3.4 was the last version in the 3.x range. Version 4.0 drops the following modules,as they are insecure:

• rsa._version133
• rsa._version200
• rsa.bigfile
• rsa.varblock

Those modules were marked as deprecated in version 3.4.

Furthermore, in 4.0 the I/O functions is streamlined to always work with bytes on allsupported versions of Python.

Version 4.0 drops support for Python 2.6 and 3.3.