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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja
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Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja

by Cody Jackson
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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The PEP proposes several new abstract base classes, and an interface that accesses these classes. They can be used to access TLS functionality without being tightly linked to OpenSSL:

  1. The following interfaces, currently used by Python, require standardization:
    • Configuring TLS, currently set by the ssl.SSLContext class.
    • In-memory buffer for encryption/decryption without actual I/O, currently set by the ssl.SSLObject class.
    • Wrapping a socket object, currently done via ssl.SSLSocket.
    • Putting the TLS configuration to the wrapper objects indicated previously, currently done by ssl.SSLContext.
    • Specifying the TLS cipher suites, currently handled by using the OpenSSL cipher suite strings.
    • Specifying application-layer protocols for ...
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