From c368ac2edfa21a6686ccd613fe0b889feb05d421 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Stapleton Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 13:43:38 +0000 Subject: Split OpenSSL binding --- docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst | 17 ++--------------- docs/hazmat/bindings/index.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ docs/hazmat/bindings/openssl.rst | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/hazmat/bindings/index.rst create mode 100644 docs/hazmat/bindings/openssl.rst (limited to 'docs/hazmat') diff --git a/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst b/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst index 99b327d9..404573a3 100644 --- a/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst +++ b/docs/hazmat/backends/openssl.rst @@ -3,23 +3,11 @@ OpenSSL Backend =============== -These are `CFFI`_ bindings to the `OpenSSL`_ C library. +The `OpenSSL`_ C library. .. data:: cryptography.hazmat.backends.openssl.backend - This is the exposed API for the OpenSSL bindings. It has two public - attributes: - - .. attribute:: ffi - - This is a :class:`cffi.FFI` instance. It can be used to allocate and - otherwise manipulate OpenSSL structures. - - .. attribute:: lib - - This is a ``cffi`` library. It can be used to call OpenSSL functions, - and access constants. - + This is the exposed API for the OpenSSL backend. It has no public attributes. Using your own OpenSSL on Linux ------------------------------- @@ -48,5 +36,4 @@ You'll also need to generate your own ``openssl.ld`` file. For example:: You should replace the version string on the first line as appropriate for your build. -.. _`CFFI`: https://cffi.readthedocs.org/ .. _`OpenSSL`: https://www.openssl.org/ diff --git a/docs/hazmat/bindings/index.rst b/docs/hazmat/bindings/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..809eddfc --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/hazmat/bindings/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +.. hazmat:: + +Bindings +======== + +.. currentmodule:: cryptography.hazmat.bindings + +``cryptography`` aims to provide low-level CFFI based bindings to multiple +native C libraries. These provide no automatic initialisation of the library +and may not provide complete wrappers for its API. + +Using these functions directly is likely to require you to be careful in +managing memory allocation, locking and other resources. + + +Individual Bindings +------------------- + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + openssl diff --git a/docs/hazmat/bindings/openssl.rst b/docs/hazmat/bindings/openssl.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..373fe472 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/hazmat/bindings/openssl.rst @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +.. hazmat:: + +OpenSSL Binding +=============== + +.. currentmodule:: cryptography.hazmat.bindings.openssl.binding + +These are `CFFI`_ bindings to the `OpenSSL`_ C library. + +.. class:: cryptography.hazmat.bindings.openssl.binding.Binding() + + This is the exposed API for the OpenSSL bindings. It has two public + attributes: + + .. attribute:: ffi + + This is a :class:`cffi.FFI` instance. It can be used to allocate and + otherwise manipulate OpenSSL structures. + + .. attribute:: lib + + This is a ``cffi`` library. It can be used to call OpenSSL functions, + and access constants. + + +.. _`CFFI`: https://cffi.readthedocs.org/ +.. _`OpenSSL`: https://www.openssl.org/ -- cgit v1.2.3