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44<h1>Python OpenSSL Manual</h1>
45<p><b><font size='+2'>Martin Sjögren</font></b></p>
46<p><span class="email">martin@strakt.com</span></p>
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53<H3>Abstract:</H3>
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56This module is a rather thin wrapper around (a subset of) the OpenSSL library.
57With thin wrapper I mean that a lot of the object methods do nothing more than
58calling a corresponding function in the OpenSSL library.
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Jean-Paul Calderone897bc252008-02-18 20:50:23 -050071 href="contents.html">Contents</A>
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Jean-Paul Calderone897bc252008-02-18 20:50:23 -050073 href="intro.html">1 Introduction </A>
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Jean-Paul Calderone897bc252008-02-18 20:50:23 -050075 href="building.html">2 Building and Installing </A>
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Jean-Paul Calderone897bc252008-02-18 20:50:23 -050084 href="openssl.html">3 <tt class="module">OpenSSL</tt> -- Python interface to OpenSSL </A>
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Jean-Paul Calderone897bc252008-02-18 20:50:23 -050087 href="openssl-crypto.html">3.1 <tt class="module">crypto</tt> -- Generic cryptographic module </A>
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Jean-Paul Calderone897bc252008-02-18 20:50:23 -050090 href="openssl-x509.html">3.1.1 X509 objects </A>
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Jean-Paul Calderone897bc252008-02-18 20:50:23 -050096 href="openssl-x509store.html">3.1.4 X509Store objects </A>
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Jean-Paul Calderone897bc252008-02-18 20:50:23 -050098 href="openssl-pkey.html">3.1.5 PKey objects </A>
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Jean-Paul Calderone897bc252008-02-18 20:50:23 -0500109 href="openssl-rand.html">3.2 <tt class="module">rand</tt> -- An interface to the OpenSSL pseudo random number generator </A>
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