Error installing pycrypto (with pyPrivnote)

Question

I've been trying to install pycrypto for the last couple hours now and its not really working, could someone please help?

The commands and steps I've tried
pip install pycrypto
easy_install pycrypto
Installing Build Tools

But i keep getting the following error: https://pastebin.com/GatwaM9n, can someone help? (I ran installation as admin too)

Answer 1

Mostly copying from https://stackoverflow.com/a/58077358/7976758 by @winklerrr:

WARNING: Don't use crypto or pycrypto anymore!

As you can read on this page, the usage of pycrypto is not safe anymore:

Pycrypto is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the ALGnew function in block_templace.c. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code in the python application. It was assigned the CVE-2013-7459 number.

Pycrypto didn’t release any fix to that vulnerability and no commit was made to the project since Jun 20, 2014.

Update 2021-01-18: The CVE is fixed now (thanks @SumitBadsara for pointing it out!). You can find the current status of the open security tickets for each package at the Debian security tracker:

• python-crypto
• pycryptodome

Use Python3's pycryptodome instead!

Make sure to uninstall all versions of crypto and pycrypto first, then install pycryptodome:

pip3 uninstall crypto 
pip3 uninstall pycrypto 
pip3 install pycryptodome

(phd — skipping a part about virtual environments…)

All of these three packages get installed to the same folder, named Crypto. Installing different packages under the same folder name can be a common source for errors!

For more information, see pycryptodome.org