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Hi all,

I'd like to announce TLS Lite v0.2.0 (the first public release, despite
appearances...).

TLS Lite is a pure-python, public domain SSL/TLS library. It has minimal
support for X.509 certificates, but focuses on up-and-coming authentication
methods like SRP [1], shared-keys [2], and cryptoIDs [3].

These methods are easier to use than PKI. They're also barely out of the
oven - the first two are Internet-Drafts, and the last is something I made
up. It's fun stuff to mess with, but keep in mind that the drafts may
change, and the code's alpha quality..

Other highlights:
- SSL v3 and TLS v1 support
- Pure python
- with AES, throughput ~25 KB/sec, on a P4 1.7 Ghz
- with RC4, throughput ~250 KB/sec
- Can use cryptlib [4] or OpenSSL/M2crypto [5] for faster ciphers & math:
- throughput ~6 MB/sec
- Integrates with httplib and SocketServer framework


Home Page and Download
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http://trevp.net/tlslite

Sourceforge (not much there, working on it..)
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/tlslite/

Mailing list
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http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/l.../tlslite-users



Feedback is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Trevor


[1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/...tls-srp-06.txt
[2] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/...redkeys-02.txt
[3] http://trevp.net/cryptoID
[4] http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/cryptlib/
[5] http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/m2/