[Cryptography-dev] openssl library

Alex Gaynor alex.gaynor at gmail.com
Thu May 25 13:39:39 EDT 2023


Cryptography can be built to link OpenSSL in either mode. Our pre-built
wheels statically link OpenSSL, but users can compile it either way.

Alex

On Thu, May 25, 2023, 1:38 PM Laurent Philippart (Nokia) <
laurent.philippart at nokia.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Could you please clarify if cryptography is statically linked to openssl /
> libcrypto library or use the system’s shared library ?
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> I am interested in tracing calls to functions like “EVP_EncryptInit_ex”
> and “EVP_CipherInit_ex” for malware detection.
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> However it seems that cryptography is not making use of the
> “libcrypto.so.1.1” shared library.
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> Best regards
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> Laurent
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