old thread: SSL support for socket module for server sockets

Martin Sjögren martin at strakt.com
Mon Jul 1 09:24:36 EDT 2002


On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 08:00:58AM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> Gerhard Häring <gerhard.haering at gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > There was an old patch, that was rejected, and
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=305470&func=detail&aid=452110
> > which I recommended not to include.
> 
> I disagree. I think the standard SSL module is still the most
> convenient one to use, and I encourage gradual improvements to
> it. Waiting for the "big complete rewrite" likely means to wait
> forever.
> 
> Yes, there are alternative SSL modules, but unless their authors step
> forward and contribute them, it is just as if they would not exist.

I'm pretty sure that's what I did from the very start ;) Pretty soon I
will release version 0.5 of pyOpenSSL, with both new features and bufixes.

Laura tells me that you had some comments on pyOpenSSL, Martin? Feel free
to mail me :)


Regards,
Martin (the other one ;))

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