TrustedPickle is a Python module that can save most any arbitrary Python object in a signed pickle file. There are two big differences between this module and the standard pickle module. First, TrustedPickle can pickle a module, but the standard pickle module cannot. Second, TrustedPickle includes a signature that can verify the data's origin before the data is unpickled. WWW: http://trustedpickle.sourceforge.net/index.html