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pyOpenSSL -- A Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library
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**Note:** The Python Cryptographic Authority **strongly suggests** the use of `pyca/cryptography`_
where possible. If you are using pyOpenSSL for anything other than making a TLS connection 
**you should move to cryptography and drop your pyOpenSSL dependency**.

High-level wrapper around a subset of the OpenSSL library. Includes

* ``SSL.Connection`` objects, wrapping the methods of Python's portable sockets
* Callbacks written in Python
* Extensive error-handling mechanism, mirroring OpenSSL's error codes

... and much more.

You can find more information in the documentation_.
Development takes place on GitHub_.


Discussion
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If you run into bugs, you can file them in our `issue tracker`_.

We maintain a cryptography-dev_ mailing list for both user and development discussions.

You can also join ``#cryptography-dev`` on Freenode to ask questions or get involved.


.. _documentation: https://pyopenssl.org/
.. _`issue tracker`: https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl/issues
.. _cryptography-dev: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cryptography-dev
.. _GitHub: https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl
.. _`pyca/cryptography`: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography