python_cryptography_symmetric_file_encryption_password_based.md

title	keywords	summary	permalink	folder	references	authors	current_reviews	last_updated	tags
Python Symmetric Password Based File Encryption using Cryptography	sample	Password based symmetric file encryption in Python	python_cryptography_symmetric_file_encryption_password_based.html	Python Cryptography	url description https://cryptography.io/en/latest/hazmat/primitives/aead/#cryptography.hazmat.primitives.ciphers.aead.AESGCM Cryptography AEAD Documentation - AESGCM url description https://cryptography.io/en/latest/hazmat/primitives/key-derivation-functions/#cryptography.hazmat.primitives.kdf.pbkdf2.PBKDF2HMAC Cryptography Password Based Key Derivation Function 2 Documentation	name url Manuel Kloppenburg https://github.com/mklopp		2018-09-13	Python AES GCM PBKDF2 Salt AEAD

Use cases

• Password based encryption of a file
• Previously shared common secret (password)

Installation

Install cryptography with pip: pip install cryptorgraphy

Supported Python versions

• Python 2.7
• Python 3.6
• Python 3.7

Example Code for Python based symmetric file encryption using AES-GCM and PBKDF2

{% include_relative src/cryptoexamples/example_symmetric_file_encryption_password_based.py %}

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