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Jean-Paul Calderonef1b839d2008-09-01 12:06:06 -0400[diff] [blame]52The reason pyOpenSSL was created is that the SSL support in the socket module
53in Python 2.1 (the contemporary version of Python when the pyOpenSSL project
54was begun) was severely limited. Other OpenSSL wrappers for Python at the time
55were also limited, though in different ways. Unfortunately, Python's standard
56library SSL support has remained weak, although other packages (such as
57M2Crypto<A NAME="tex2html1"
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Jean-Paul Calderonef1b839d2008-09-01 12:06:06 -0400[diff] [blame]59have made great advances and now equal or exceed pyOpenSSL's functionality.
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Jean-Paul Calderonef1b839d2008-09-01 12:06:06 -0400[diff] [blame]62The reason pyOpenSSL continues to be maintained is that there is a significant
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Jean-Paul Calderonef1b839d2008-09-01 12:06:06 -0400[diff] [blame]71M2Crypto</A><A
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Jean-Paul Calderonef1b839d2008-09-01 12:06:06 -0400[diff] [blame]73<DD>See <a class="url" href="http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto">http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto</a>
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