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| 48 | 1 Introduction |
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| Jean-Paul Calderone | f1b839d | 2008-09-01 12:06:06 -0400 | [diff] [blame^] | 52 | The reason pyOpenSSL was created is that the SSL support in the socket module |
| 53 | in Python 2.1 (the contemporary version of Python when the pyOpenSSL project |
| 54 | was begun) was severely limited. Other OpenSSL wrappers for Python at the time |
| 55 | were also limited, though in different ways. Unfortunately, Python's standard |
| 56 | library SSL support has remained weak, although other packages (such as |
| 57 | M2Crypto<A NAME="tex2html1" |
| 58 | HREF="#foot933"><SUP>1</SUP></A>) |
| 59 | have made great advances and now equal or exceed pyOpenSSL's functionality. |
| Jean-Paul Calderone | 897bc25 | 2008-02-18 20:50:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | |
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| Jean-Paul Calderone | f1b839d | 2008-09-01 12:06:06 -0400 | [diff] [blame^] | 62 | The reason pyOpenSSL continues to be maintained is that there is a significant |
| 63 | user community around it, as well as a large amount of software which depends |
| 64 | on it. It is a great benefit to many people for pyOpenSSL to continue to exist |
| 65 | and advance. |
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| Jean-Paul Calderone | f1b839d | 2008-09-01 12:06:06 -0400 | [diff] [blame^] | 70 | <DT><A NAME="foot933">... |
| 71 | M2Crypto</A><A |
| Jean-Paul Calderone | 897bc25 | 2008-02-18 20:50:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | href="intro.html#tex2html1"><SUP>1</SUP></A></DT> |
| Jean-Paul Calderone | f1b839d | 2008-09-01 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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