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from cryptography.fernet import Fernet
key = Fernet.generate_key()
print (key)

Key stored in a file

This is very similar to the previous approach but the encryption key is stored in a file instead of an environment variable. For this to work you set SQ_ENCRYPTION_KEY_FILE environment variable to the (absolute) path of a file containing nothing but the encryption key.

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The file contains commented out versions of these keys by default. Comment out the appropriate key and set the desired value.

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# encrypt passwords using the following settings per
# https://squirro.atlassian.net/wiki/display/DOC/Securing+your+Configuration+Files
# SQ_ENCRYPTION_KEY=
# SQ_ENCRYPTION_KEY_FILE=
# SQ_DECRYPT_COMMAND=
# SQ_ENCRYPT_COMMAND=

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