| <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> |
| <html> |
| <head> |
| <title>1 Introduction </title> |
| <META NAME="description" CONTENT="1 Introduction "> |
| <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="pyOpenSSL"> |
| <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> |
| <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> |
| <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="pyOpenSSL.css"> |
| <LINK REL="next" href="building.html"> |
| <LINK REL="previous" href="contents.html"> |
| <LINK REL="up" HREF="pyOpenSSL.html"> |
| <LINK REL="next" href="building.html"> |
| </head> |
| <body> |
| <DIV CLASS="navigation"> |
| <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> |
| <tr> |
| <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="previous.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> |
| <td><A HREF="pyOpenSSL.html"><img src="up.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> |
| <td><A href="building.html"><img src="next.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> |
| <td align="center" width="100%">Python OpenSSL Manual</td> |
| <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="contents.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> |
| <td><img src="blank.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="" width="32"></td> |
| <td><img src="blank.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="" width="32"></td> |
| </tr></table> |
| <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="contents.html">Contents</A> |
| <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" HREF="pyOpenSSL.html">Python OpenSSL Manual</A> |
| <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="building.html">2 Building and Installing</A> |
| <br><hr> |
| </DIV> |
| <!--End of Navigation Panel--> |
| |
| <H1><A NAME="SECTION000200000000000000000"> </A> |
| <BR> |
| 1 Introduction |
| </H1> |
| |
| <P> |
| The reason pyOpenSSL was created is that the SSL support in the socket module |
| in Python 2.1 (the contemporary version of Python when the pyOpenSSL project |
| was begun) was severely limited. Other OpenSSL wrappers for Python at the time |
| were also limited, though in different ways. Unfortunately, Python's standard |
| library SSL support has remained weak, although other packages (such as |
| M2Crypto<A NAME="tex2html1" |
| HREF="#foot1200"><SUP>1</SUP></A>) |
| have made great advances and now equal or exceed pyOpenSSL's functionality. |
| |
| <P> |
| The reason pyOpenSSL continues to be maintained is that there is a significant |
| user community around it, as well as a large amount of software which depends |
| on it. It is a great benefit to many people for pyOpenSSL to continue to exist |
| and advance. |
| |
| <P> |
| <BR><HR><H4>Footnotes</H4> |
| <DL> |
| <DT><A NAME="foot1200">... |
| M2Crypto</A><A |
| href="intro.html#tex2html1"><SUP>1</SUP></A></DT> |
| <DD>See <a class="url" href="http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto">http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto</a> |
| |
| </DD> |
| </DL> |
| <DIV CLASS="navigation"> |
| <p><hr> |
| <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> |
| <tr> |
| <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="previous.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> |
| <td><A HREF="pyOpenSSL.html"><img src="up.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> |
| <td><A href="building.html"><img src="next.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> |
| <td align="center" width="100%">Python OpenSSL Manual</td> |
| <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="contents.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> |
| <td><img src="blank.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="" width="32"></td> |
| <td><img src="blank.gif" |
| border="0" height="32" |
| alt="" width="32"></td> |
| </tr></table> |
| <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="contents.html">Contents</A> |
| <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" HREF="pyOpenSSL.html">Python OpenSSL Manual</A> |
| <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="building.html">2 Building and Installing</A> |
| <hr> |
| <span class="release-info">Release 0.12.</span> |
| </DIV> |
| <!--End of Navigation Panel--> |
| |
| </BODY> |
| </HTML> |