geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> added the comment: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Marc-Andre Lemburg <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: > > Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> >> Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: >> >>> pyOpenSSL is stable, in production use and >>> has a decent API. The ssl module is good enough for HTTPS client >>> use. pyOpenSSL provides a robust server side implementation with >>> all the required certificate and context handling needed for this. >>> >>> We could tell people to use the ssl module for clients and >>> pyOpenSSL for the server side and perhaps integrate the OpenSSL >>> package into the ssl namespace. >> >> In this case, this should be decided early, so that I know if I should >> continue caring about the ssl module or not. I'm not interested in >> maintaining potentially obsolete code. > > I'll ask Jean-Paul and AB Strakt if they are up to contributing > the pyOpenSSL code to the Python stdlib based on a contributor > agreement. This would enable us to relicense the code undert > the PSF license even if the original code's license is not > changed. > > Once that's a done deal, we can then consider moving in the above > direction.
I'm not sure I understand the relevance of pyopenssl here- it's pretty clearly focused on SSL/TLS rather than on crypto. Maybe someone can clarify? Geremy Condra ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8998> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
