To install PyVault from the sources:

python setup.py install

The following dependencies are automatically resolved by using the above command

• pycrypto >= 2.6
• SecureString >= 0.1
• pbkdf2 >= 1.3
• py-bcrypt >= 0.4
• pairtree >= 0.5.2

You might have to install additional packages using your distributions package manager to successfully build some of these dependencies. Debian based distribution can resolve these dependencies by installing at least the following packages

aptitude install build-essential python-dev libffi libffi-dev libssl-dev

The security of this library has of yet not been reviewed. If you're a cryptographic genius, then please feel free to do so.

Strings can be copied arbitrarily by the interpreter (it's probably not arbitrary), so cleaning up sensitive data (such as keys and unencrypted payload) is hard. This is a general problem of high-level programming languages, as you don't have access to the underlying memory directly.

Having said that, we tried to make sure, that no sensitive data remains in memory after (un)encrypting operations. We however do not free unencrypted payload data so you have to make sure yourself to clear it.

PyVault is licensed under the BSD License. See LICENSE for more information.