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-pyOpenSSL - A Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library
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+pyOpenSSL -- A Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library
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.. image:: https://coveralls.io/repos/pyca/pyopenssl/badge.svg
:target: https://coveralls.io/r/pyca/pyopenssl
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.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/pyca/pyopenssl.svg?branch=master
:target: https://travis-ci.org/pyca/pyopenssl
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+High-level wrapper around a subset of the OpenSSL library. Includes
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+* 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.
+
See the file INSTALL.rst for installation instructions.
See https://github.com/pyca/pyopenssl for development.