Danger
This is a “Hazardous Materials” module. You should ONLY use it if you’re 100% absolutely sure that you know what you’re doing because this module is full of land mines, dragons, and dinosaurs with laser guns.
OpenSSL binding¶
These are CFFI bindings to the OpenSSL C library. Cryptography supports OpenSSL version 1.0.1 and greater.
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class
cryptography.hazmat.bindings.openssl.binding.
Binding
¶ This is the exposed API for the OpenSSL bindings. It has two public attributes:
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ffi
¶ This is a
cffi.FFI
instance. It can be used to allocate and otherwise manipulate OpenSSL structures.
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lib
¶ This is a
cffi
library. It can be used to call OpenSSL functions, and access constants.
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Threading¶
cryptography
enables OpenSSLs thread safety facilities in several
different ways depending on the configuration of your system. For users on
OpenSSL 1.1.0 or newer (including anyone who uses a binary wheel) the OpenSSL
internal locking callbacks are automatically used. Otherwise, we first attempt
to use the callbacks provided by your Python implementation specifically for
OpenSSL. This will work in every case except where cryptography
is linked
against a different version of OpenSSL than the one used by your Python
implementation. For this final case we have a C-based locking callback.