Standard Library SSL Module (was: Python OpenSSL library)

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:54:33 -0400
Michael Crute <mcrute at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

It depends on what feature(s) exactly you want to work on. If you want
to provide encryption/decryption routines, perhaps a new module or
package is best. In any case, feel free to open a entry at
http://bugs.python.org and we can discuss it.

Regards

Antoine.