ANN: TLS Lite 0.2.0

[Trevor Perrin]

Hi all,

I'd like to announce TLS Lite v0.2.0 (the first public release, despite 
appearances...).

TLS Lite is a pure-python, public domain SSL/TLS library.  It has minimal 
support for X.509 certificates, but focuses on up-and-coming authentication 
methods like SRP [1], shared-keys [2], and cryptoIDs [3].

These methods are easier to use than PKI.  They're also barely out of the 
oven - the first two are Internet-Drafts, and the last is something I made 
up.  It's fun stuff to mess with, but keep in mind that the drafts may 
change, and the code's alpha quality..

Other highlights:
  - SSL v3 and TLS v1 support
  - Pure python
    - with AES, throughput ~25 KB/sec, on a P4 1.7 Ghz
    - with RC4, throughput ~250 KB/sec
  - Can use cryptlib [4] or OpenSSL/M2crypto [5] for faster ciphers & math:
    - throughput ~6 MB/sec
  - Integrates with httplib and SocketServer framework


Home Page and Download
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http://trevp.net/tlslite

Sourceforge (not much there, working on it..)
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/tlslite/

Mailing list
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tlslite-users



Feedback is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Trevor


[1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-srp-06.txt
[2] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-tls-sharedkeys-02.txt
[3] http://trevp.net/cryptoID
[4] http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/
[5] http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/m2/