# Symmetric crypto lib from cryptography.fernet import Fernet key = Fernet.generate_key() file = open('key.key', 'wb') file.write(key) # The key is type bytes still file.close() message = "my deep dark secret".encode() f = Fernet(key) encrypted = f.encrypt(message) print(encrypted) decrypted = f.decrypt(encrypted) print(decrypted)