Standard Library SSL Module (was: Python OpenSSL library)

[Michael Crute]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> That was not my question. My question was whether there was a reason to
> rewrite a separate OpenSSL-accessing library rather than contributing to
> improve the "hashlib" and "ssl" modules which are already part of the
> Python stdlib.

The ssl module in the standard library is currently just SSL wrappers
around sock objects while M2Crypto, PyCrypto and Evpy are all a more
complete implementation of the other cryptography and signing features
in OpenSSL. I think it would be really awesome to have a complete
OpenSSL wrapper in the Python standard library since crypto in Python
is somewhat of a pain today. If I wanted to work on something like
that what would be the best approach? Extend the ssl package? Create a
new crypto package?


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