Welcome to pyOpenSSL’s documentation!

Release v17.3.0 (What’s new?).

pyOpenSSL is a rather thin wrapper around (a subset of) the OpenSSL library. With thin wrapper we mean that a lot of the object methods do nothing more than calling a corresponding function in the OpenSSL library.

Contents:

• Introduction
  • History
  • Development
  • Contributing
• Installation
  • Supported OpenSSL Versions
  • Documentation
• OpenSSL — Python interface to OpenSSL
  • crypto — Generic cryptographic module
  • SSL — An interface to the SSL-specific parts of OpenSSL
• Internals
  • Exceptions
  • Callbacks
  • Accessing Socket Methods

There are also examples in the pyOpenSSL repository that may help you getting started.

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• Backward Compatibility
• Changelog

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page