Welcome to pyOpenSSL’s documentation!

Release v24.2.1 (What’s new?).

pyOpenSSL is a rather thin wrapper around (a subset of) the OpenSSL library. With thin wrapper we mean that a lot of the object methods do nothing more than calling a corresponding function in the OpenSSL library.

Contents:

• Introduction
  • History
  • Development
  • Contributing
• Installation
  • Supported OpenSSL Versions
  • Documentation
• OpenSSL — Python interface to OpenSSL
  • crypto — Generic cryptographic module
  • SSL — An interface to the SSL-specific parts of OpenSSL
• Internals
  • Exceptions
  • Callbacks
  • Accessing Socket Methods

Meta

• Backward Compatibility
• Changelog

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page