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import EasyCrypt keystring = "SixteenByteKey!!" inpstring = "Some super secret string, that I don't want you to see."
This is the initialisation vector/nonce. I generated it with the below code. As you
will need it to decrypt later on, you might want to store it and not just generate it each time
I just generated it like this and printed this one out to store it.
import os
from binascii import hexlify, unhexlify
ivstring = hexlify(os.urandom(16)).decode()
ivstring = "aba0a3bde34a03487eda3ec96d5736a8"
crypted = EasyCrypt.encrypt_string(keystring, inpstring, ivstring) print(crypted)
decrypted = EasyCrypt.decrypt_string(keystring, crypted, ivstring) print(decrypted)
