| .. danger:: |
| |
| This is a "Hazardous Materials" module. You should **ONLY** use it if |
| you're 100% absolutely sure that you know what you're doing because this |
| module is full of land mines, dragons, and dinosaurs with laser guns. |
| |
| |
| OpenSSL |
| ======= |
| |
| These are `CFFI`_ bindings to the `OpenSSL`_ C library. |
| |
| .. data:: cryptography.hazmat.bindings.openssl.backend |
| |
| This is the exposed API for the OpenSSL bindings. It has two public |
| attributes: |
| |
| .. attribute:: ffi |
| |
| This is a :class:`cffi.FFI` instance. It can be used to allocate and |
| otherwise manipulate OpenSSL structures. |
| |
| .. attribute:: lib |
| |
| This is a ``cffi`` library. It can be used to call OpenSSL functions, |
| and access constants. |
| |
| |
| .. _`CFFI`: http://cffi.readthedocs.org/ |
| .. _`OpenSSL`: https://www.openssl.org/ |