[Python-Dev] Future of SSL

[Gerhard Häring]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 07:02:42PM -0700, Michel Pelletier wrote:
> Christopher Petrilli wrote:
> >
> > Actually what this looks more like is not just SSL, but a "crypto"
> > collection for Python, dependent on the excellent work in OpenSSL.  I
> > can start outlining some stuff if that would be a good start, though
> > obviously if there's an existing library that could be integrated,
> > that would be excellent.
> 
> AMK has such a package:
> 
> http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto.html

It doesn't offer SSL, however. I've compiled a list of SSL libraries for
Python:

http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/pyssl/

The "Python OpenSSL wrappers" are BSD licensed and could probably serve
as a good basis for a SSL library in Python itself. It's an early
release, that I can crash easily if I want to ;-) Also, it would have to
be modified to fit Python's coding standards (basically, the docstrings
are all written in DocBook; these would have to be translated to normal
text). But it's a working solution to start from.

The other BSD licensed one is M2Crypto, which is around much longer, but
requires SWIG to build. I think SSL support is not reason enough to
require SWIG for Python builds. So this one is possibly out. The third
one is LGPL licensed, so it's out immediately.

Gerhard
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