[PYTHON-CRYPTO] M2Crypto 0.18 Roadmap

[Kershaw, PJ (Philip)]

Hi Heikki,

I have a couple of requests for enhancements.  Apologies if you have these already on Bugzilla.  I'm new to this process.

 * I made an alteration to the setup.py so that you can create an egg and also, use build_ext options to set which OpenSSL to link with:

http://glue.badc.rl.ac.uk/ndg/browser/TI12-security/branches/Dependencies/m2crypto/setup.py

I know you can do this with the --openssl option already but if I do it with build_ext its more flexible.  In particular it means if I include an M2Crypto.tar.gz as a dependency link for another egg I can also pass build_ext args to determine the OpenSSL link location.

 * I'd like to be able to read ASN1 format from a string.  To do this I added in a wrapper to OpenSSL d2i_X509_bio() but is there an alternative way to do this with the existing M2Crypto interface?

 * I have a question about the handling of proxy certificate DNs.  X509_Name.CN will yield only one value even if there are multiple CN entries: 
  
>>> from M2Crypto import *
>>> x509=X509.load_cert('cert.pem')
>>> x509subj=x509.get_subject()
>>> str(x509subj)
'/O=a/OU=b/CN=A.N.Other/CN=proxy'
>>> x509subj.CN
'A.N.Other'

Is this right or is there another to do this?

Cheers,
Phil




-----Original Message-----
From: generic crypto class API for Python on behalf of Heikki Toivonen
Sent: Fri 08-Jun-07 9:28 AM
To: PYTHON-CRYPTO at NIC.SURFNET.NL
Subject: M2Crypto 0.18 Roadmap
 
I am planning on wrapping up 0.18 development work by the beginning of
July 2007, do weekly betas during July, and get the actual release out
by the end of July 2007. Due to vacations the schedule may not be
exactly strict, but that is the plan.

There are currently 18 more bugs targeted for 0.18. If you have any
issues or enhancement requests you haven't submitted to the M2Crypto bug
database, now would be the time. Also, the earlier and more testing the
better.

http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto

-- 
  Heikki Toivonen