M2Crypto 0.20.1 Fixes Regression in httpslib.ProxyHTTPSConnection
Miloslav Trmac noticed a regression in httpslib.ProxyHTTPSConnection and provided a fix for it, and I’ve just tagged and uploaded the new 0.20.1 version to PyPI. See the 0.20 release announcement for...
View ArticleM2Crypto 0.20.2 for Ancient OpenSSL
M2Crypto has been claiming support for OpenSSL 0.9.7 but it actually turned out I wasn’t testing with quite that old OpenSSL version. Recently M2Crypto got support for RSA PSS stuff, but it turns out...
View ArticleUsing M2Crypto with boto – Secure Access to Amazon Web Services
Many companies run services in the Amazon cloud infrastructure, so it makes an attractive target for criminals as well. You need to make sure that you really are talking to the right Amazon servers...
View ArticleSecure Password Scheme for Turbogears2 Application with repoze.who and bcrypt
I am working on a little Turbogears2 application, and wanted to use the repoze.who and repoze.what packages that integrate nicely with Turbogears2 and have gathered fair amount of positive feedback. It...
View ArticleSSL in Python 2.7
It has been almost two years since I wrote about the state of SSL in Python 2.6. If you haven’t read that yet, I suggest you read that first and then continue here, since I will mostly just be talking...
View ArticleEV Guidelines Holding Up
About a month ago I was reading a post how one can use a browser while disabling all certificates that it ships with. While this can work, it is definitely not for the lazy or someone not very familiar...
View ArticleM2Crypto Supports OpenSSL 1.0.x
I was supposed to release new M2Crypto version in the summer of 2010 but “real life” got in the way, and this extended all the way until this week. I finally decided that I’d better push out a new...
View ArticleM2Crypto Has New Maintainer
I am excited to announce that M2Crypto has a new maintainer and homepage! As of last summer, Martin Paljak agreed to take over the project since I had not been able to dedicate enough time to keep...
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