AES String Encryption

AES string encryption in Python.

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import sys
import chilkat

crypt = chilkat.CkCrypt2()

success = crypt.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
if (success != True):
    print "Crypt component unlock failed"
    sys.exit()

password = "secretPassPhrase"

crypt.put_CryptAlgorithm("aes")
crypt.put_CipherMode("cbc")
crypt.put_KeyLength(128)

#  Generate a binary secret key from a password string
#  of any length.  For 128-bit encryption, GenEncodedSecretKey
#  generates the MD5 hash of the password and returns it
#  in the encoded form requested.  The 2nd param can be
#  "hex", "base64", "url", "quoted-printable", etc.
hexKey = crypt.genEncodedSecretKey(password,"hex")
crypt.SetEncodedKey(hexKey,"hex")

crypt.put_EncodingMode("base64")
text = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog."

#  Encrypt a string and return the binary encrypted data
#  in a base-64 encoded string.
encText = crypt.encryptStringENC(text)

print encText

#  Decrypt and show the original string:
decryptedText = crypt.decryptStringENC(encText)

print decryptedText