Python OpenSSL Manual (original) (raw)

Martin Sj�gren

martin@strakt.com

Abstract:

This module is a rather thin wrapper around (a subset of) the OpenSSL library. With thin wrapper I mean that a lot of the object methods do nothing more than calling a corresponding function in the OpenSSL library.

• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Building and Installing
  • 2.1 Building the Module on a Unix System
  • 2.2 Building the Module on a Windows System
• 3 OpenSSL -- Python interface to OpenSSL
  • 3.1 crypto -- Generic cryptographic module
    * 3.1.1 X509 objects
    * 3.1.2 X509Name objects
    * 3.1.3 X509Req objects
    * 3.1.4 X509Store objects
    * 3.1.5 PKey objects
    * 3.1.6 PKCS7 objects
    * 3.1.7 PKCS12 objects
    * 3.1.8 X509Extension objects
    * 3.1.9 NetscapeSPKI objects
  • 3.2 rand -- An interface to the OpenSSL pseudo random number generator
  • 3.3 SSL -- An interface to the SSL-specific parts of OpenSSL
    * 3.3.1 Context objects
    * 3.3.2 Connection objects
• 4 Internals
  • 4.1 Exceptions
  • 4.2 Callbacks
  • 4.3 Acessing Socket Methods
• About this document ...

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