ANN: M2Crypto 0.21.1

Heikki Toivonen hjtoi-better-remove-before-reply at comcast.net
Mon Jan 17 00:44:02 EST 2011


Announcing M2Crypto 0.21.1

Changes:

0.21.1 - 2011-01-15
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- Distribution fix

0.21 - 2011-01-12
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- Support OpenSSL 1.0. Thanks to Miloslav Trmac for figuring out how
  to fix test_smime.py
- Rename m2.engine_init to engine_init_error so that
  ENGINE_init and ENGINE_finish can be exposed, thanks to Erlo
- 0.20 started releasing Python locks even around some operations that
  interacted with the Python runtime, potentially causing crashes
  and other weirdness, fix by Miloslav Trmac
- Make httpslib.ProxyHTTPSConnection work with Python 2.3


M2Crypto is the most complete Python wrapper for OpenSSL featuring RSA,
DSA, DH, EC, HMACs, message digests, symmetric ciphers (including AES);
SSL functionality to implement clients and servers; HTTPS extensions to
Python's httplib, urllib, and xmlrpclib; unforgeable HMAC'ing
AuthCookies for web session management; FTP/TLS client and server;
S/MIME; ZServerSSL: A HTTPS server for Zope and ZSmime: An S/MIME
messenger for Zope. M2Crypto can also be used to provide SSL for
Twisted. Smartcards supported through the Engine interface.

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  Heikki Toivonen - http://heikkitoivonen.net



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