[Cryptography-dev] regarding openSSL bindings in python-cryptography package

2022-07-11 Thread SUDHAKAR REDDY KHANDI
hi i am using python-cryptography to sign a http request using RSA. I am using this on the linux platform. In my source tree, I don't see _openssl.so under the cryptography/hazmat/bindings directory, but on my target device, I see this .so under the above mentioned directory. I guess this is gene

Re: [Cryptography-dev] regarding openSSL bindings in python-cryptography package

2022-07-11 Thread Alex Gaynor
Hi Sudhakar, _openssl.so is the CFFI generated C extension that exposes OpenSSL's APIs to Python. Depending on how you built and installed cryptography this can be either statically linked against OpenSSL or dynamically. If you downloaded one of our wheels then it is statically linked against a ve