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$Id$
This is a hacked version of the Python OpenSSL Wrappers (POW) package.
At some point I'll package up the changes and send them to the package
maintainer (if I can find him), but I want my changes under version
control while I'm hacking.
POW is a nice package, although it appears not to have gotten much
attention recently. It's really two separate packages, one of which
uses a few facilities from the other:
- POW itself is a Python extension module linked against OpenSSL.
This (or some equivilent package like M2Crypto) is necessary if one
wants to use the various crypto algorithms.
- POW.pkix is a pure-Python module that builds on the base POW module
to support X509v3 extensions. This, to me, is the most interesting
thing about POW: it's the only X.509 package for Python I've seen
that has a reasonably complete mapping of X.509v3 into native Python
datatypes (M2Crypto, by comparision, only supports the text
representations provided by the extension drivers in the OpenSSL
libraries -- POW supports those too, but they're not as useful).
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