Padding_with_unicode_support - Unicode support for Pipy Package "Padding"

Note - The original author of this package is Peio Popov - I have added unicode support to it with a small change.

Padding is a popular Python package that facilitates developers apply standardized padding while performing cryptographic opeations.

You can find the complete documentation here.

This module however does not support padding when you are using Unicode character set (and hence the utf-8 encoding)

I have made a small change to add this support. The API does not change.

How to use it?

I have also reached out to the original author - if they implement utf-8 encoding - I will update this description. And you can use it just by installing with pip

But for now

1. Install with pip install Padding
2. For Testing - replace the contents of site-packages/Padding.py with contents of Padding.py provided here.
3. Later you can add Padding.py as part of your codebase itself so that you don't have to manually update.

Tip - If you are always going to use English character set (that can be represented only by ASCII encoding) - you do not have to use this version. But let's say your plaintext involves señor (ñ) or characters from Indian script Devanagari (e.g. अ), you can use this improved version.