ANN: PyDTLS

[Guido van Rossum]

This sounds exciting. Are you considering a Python 3 port? It might make a
nice demo of PEP 3156.

On Monday, January 7, 2013, rbit wrote:

> I would like to announce Datagram Transport Layer Security for
> Python. From the top of the project README:
>
> PyDTLS brings Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS - RFC 6347:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6347) to the Python environment. In a
> nutshell, DTLS brings security (encryption, server authentication,
> user authentication, and message authentication) to UDP datagram
> payloads in a manner equivalent to what SSL/TLS does for TCP stream
> content.
>
> DTLS is now very easy to use in Python. If you're familiar with the
> ssl module in Python's standard library, you already know how. All it
> takes is passing a datagram/UDP socket to the *wrap_socket* function
> instead of a stream/TCP socket. Here's how one sets up the client side
> of a connection:
>
>     import ssl
>     from socket import socket, AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM
>     from dtls import do_patch
>     do_patch()
>     sock = ssl.wrap_socket(socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM))
>     sock.connect(('foo.bar.com', 1234))
>     sock.send('Hi there')
>
> The project is hosted at https://github.com/rbit/pydtls, and licensed
> under
> the Apache license 2.0. PyPI has packages. I can be reached
> at code AT liquibits DOT com for questions, feedback, etc.
>
> <P><A HREF="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Dtls/0.1.0">Dtls 0.1.0</A> -
>       Datagram Transport Layer Security for Python.  (07-Jan-13)
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