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author | Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mithrandi.net> | 2016-02-21 22:44:04 +0200 |
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committer | Tristan Seligmann <mithrandi@mithrandi.net> | 2016-02-21 22:44:04 +0200 |
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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7e6bdde --- /dev/null +++ b/README.rst @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +=========================================== +Service Identity Verification for pyOpenSSL +=========================================== + +.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/pyca/service_identity.svg?branch=master + :target: https://travis-ci.org/pyca/service_identity + +.. image:: https://codecov.io/github/pyca/service_identity/coverage.svg?branch=master + :target: https://codecov.io/github/pyca/service_identity + +.. image:: https://www.irccloud.com/invite-svg?channel=%23cryptography-dev&hostname=irc.freenode.net&port=6697&ssl=1 + :target: https://www.irccloud.com/invite?channel=%23cryptography-dev&hostname=irc.freenode.net&port=6697&ssl=1 + +.. begin + +**TL;DR**: Use this package if you use pyOpenSSL_ and don’t want to be MITM_\ ed. + +``service_identity`` aspires to give you all the tools you need for verifying whether a certificate is valid for the intended purposes. + +In the simplest case, this means *host name verification*. +However, ``service_identity`` implements `RFC 6125`_ fully and plans to add other relevant RFCs too. + +``service_identity``\ ’s documentation lives at `Read the Docs <https://service-identity.readthedocs.org/>`_, the code on `GitHub <https://github.com/pyca/service_identity>`_. + + +.. _Twisted: https://twistedmatrix.com/ +.. _pyOpenSSL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyOpenSSL/ +.. _MITM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-in-the-middle_attack +.. _`RFC 6125`: http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6125 |