| Alex Gaynor | 6d02e2d | 2013-09-30 10:37:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | OpenSSL |
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| Alex Gaynor | 0f7f781 | 2013-09-30 10:52:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | .. warning:: |
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| Paul Kehrer | db37d0e | 2013-10-22 20:13:06 -0500 | [diff] [blame^] | 6 | The OpenSSL backend is not easy to use, small mistakes can lead to significant |
| Hynek Schlawack | 5cb03b2 | 2013-10-03 13:13:55 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | security vulnerabilities. We strongly recommend not using this directly, |
| Alex Gaynor | 0f7f781 | 2013-09-30 10:52:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | and instead using one of the higher level APIs exposed by ``cryptography``. |
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| Alex Gaynor | 6d02e2d | 2013-09-30 10:37:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | These are `CFFI`_ bindings to the `OpenSSL`_ C library. |
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| Paul Kehrer | db37d0e | 2013-10-22 20:13:06 -0500 | [diff] [blame^] | 13 | .. data:: cryptography.bindings.openssl.backend |
| Alex Gaynor | 6d02e2d | 2013-09-30 10:37:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | |
| Paul Kehrer | db37d0e | 2013-10-22 20:13:06 -0500 | [diff] [blame^] | 15 | This is the exposed backend for the OpenSSL bindings. It has two public |
| Alex Gaynor | 6d02e2d | 2013-09-30 10:37:22 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | attributes: |
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| 18 | .. attribute:: ffi |
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| 20 | This is a :class:`cffi.FFI` instance. It can be used to allocate and |
| 21 | otherwise manipulate OpenSSL structures. |
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| 23 | .. attribute:: lib |
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| 25 | This is a ``cffi`` library. It can be used to call OpenSSL functions, |
| 26 | and access constants. |
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| 29 | .. _`CFFI`: http://cffi.readthedocs.org/ |
| 30 | .. _`OpenSSL`: https://www.openssl.org/ |