Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: backports.ssl_match_hostname
Version: 3.4.0.2
Summary: The ssl.match_hostname() function from Python 3.4
Home-page: http://bitbucket.org/brandon/backports.ssl_match_hostname
Author: Brandon Craig Rhodes
Author-email: brandon@rhodesmill.org
License: UNKNOWN
Description: 
        The Secure Sockets layer is only actually *secure*
        if you check the hostname in the certificate returned
        by the server to which you are connecting,
        and verify that it matches to hostname
        that you are trying to reach.
        
        But the matching logic, defined in `RFC2818`_,
        can be a bit tricky to implement on your own.
        So the ``ssl`` package in the Standard Library of Python 3.2
        and greater now includes a ``match_hostname()`` function
        for performing this check instead of requiring every application
        to implement the check separately.
        
        This backport brings ``match_hostname()`` to users
        of earlier versions of Python.
        Simply make this distribution a dependency of your package,
        and then use it like this::
        
            from backports.ssl_match_hostname import match_hostname, CertificateError
            ...
            sslsock = ssl.wrap_socket(sock, ssl_version=ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3,
                                      cert_reqs=ssl.CERT_REQUIRED, ca_certs=...)
            try:
                match_hostname(sslsock.getpeercert(), hostname)
            except CertificateError, ce:
                ...
        
        Note that the ``ssl`` module is only included in the Standard Library
        for Python 2.6 and later;
        users of Python 2.5 or earlier versions
        will also need to install the ``ssl`` distribution
        from the Python Package Index to use code like that shown above.
        
        Brandon Craig Rhodes is merely the packager of this distribution;
        the actual code inside comes verbatim from Python 3.4.
        
        History
        -------
        * This function was introduced in python-3.2
        * It was updated for python-3.4a1 for a CVE 
          (backports-ssl_match_hostname-3.4.0.1)
        * It was updated from RFC2818 to RFC 6125 compliance in order to fix another
          security flaw for python-3.3.3 and python-3.4a5
          (backports-ssl_match_hostname-3.4.0.2)
        
        
        .. _RFC2818: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818.html
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Python Software Foundation License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.4
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.5
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.0
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1
Classifier: Topic :: Security :: Cryptography
