Python OpenSSL library

[Antoine Pitrou]

Le lundi 14 juin 2010 à 13:18 -0400, geremy condra a écrit :
> >>
> >> Evpy[1] is designed to be a very easy-to-use interface to OpenSSL,
> >> although it is by design limited to doing things the right way, so it
> >> may not meet your needs.
> >
> > How about contributing to the standard hashlib and ssl modules? Is
> > there anything there that goes in the way, e.g. design-wise?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Antoine
> 
> Evpy currently uses ctypes for its bindings, so my understanding is
> that it isn't eligible for inclusion, but a rewrite as a C extension is
> under way and I'd be happy to contribute that.

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.

Regards

Antoine.