[Twisted-Python] twisted.web HTTPS client certificate
Barry Scott
barry.scott at forcepoint.com
Wed Jul 14 08:05:00 MDT 2021
On Tuesday, 13 July 2021 22:48:18 BST Glyph wrote:
>
> > On Jul 13, 2021, at 2:09 AM, Barry Scott <barry.scott at forcepoint.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday, 12 July 2021 09:27:19 BST Glyph wrote:
> >> FWIW I would avoid calling the pyOpenSSL APIs for this, since hopefully we'll manage to move away from OpenSSL and at least somewhat abstract away the transition.
> >
> > Are you thinking to use the Windows and macOS provided crypto API and only use openssl on Unix systems?
> >
> > Barry
>
> It would be nice to have a system for backends so that we could do this when certain specific situations call for it (usually related to TLS clients, rather than servers, although having both would be great), but no, the main motivation is to drop OpenSSL entirely in favor of Rustls, as recommended by the ISRG: <https://www.abetterinternet.org/post/preparing-rustls-for-wider-adoption/ <https://www.abetterinternet.org/post/preparing-rustls-for-wider-adoption/>>.
That is a great goal for Twisted.
Barry
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