Pycrypto - active ??

[Paul Rubin]

"Frank Millman" <frank at chagford.com> writes:
> > TLSLite is so far not really a complete SSL implementation by itself.
> > It doesn't know how to properly check the signatures on certificate
> > chains.  It has to use an external module like m2crypto for that.
> 
> When you say "It has to ...", do you mean that TLSLite will do this
> automatically if m2crypto is installed, or is it up to me to call the
> m2crypto functions to perform this check?

I don't remember exactly; see the TLSLite docs.  I have the vague
memory that you have to specify what kind of checking you want, and if
you say you want the cert chain checked, then TLSLite raises an
exception if the external lib isn't there.  But I'm not sure.