Python OpenSSL Manual

Author:Jean-Paul Calderone

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:

• Introduction
• Building and Installing
  • Building the Module on a Unix System
  • Building the Module on a Windows System
• OpenSSL — Python interface to OpenSSL
  • crypto — Generic cryptographic module
    • X509 objects
    • X509Name objects
    • X509Req objects
    • X509Store objects
    • PKey objects
    • PKCS7 objects
    • PKCS12 objects
    • X509Extension objects
    • NetscapeSPKI objects
    • CRL objects
    • Revoked objects
  • rand — An interface to the OpenSSL pseudo random number generator
  • SSL — An interface to the SSL-specific parts of OpenSSL
    • Context objects
    • Connection objects
• Internals
  • Exceptions
  • Callbacks
  • Acessing Socket Methods