From 0f7f7813ebf7b1fb52f0bab1c6c26321bf9cd5d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Gaynor Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:52:36 -0700 Subject: Put a warning --- docs/bindings/openssl.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/bindings/openssl.rst b/docs/bindings/openssl.rst index 144ed9b3..79468cb4 100644 --- a/docs/bindings/openssl.rst +++ b/docs/bindings/openssl.rst @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ OpenSSL ======= +.. warning:: + + The OpenSSL API is not easy to use, small mistakes can lead to significant + security vulnerabilities. We strongly reccomend not using this directly, + and instead using one of the higher level APIs exposed by ``cryptography``. + + These are `CFFI`_ bindings to the `OpenSSL`_ C library. .. data:: cryptography.bindings.openssl.api -- cgit v1.2.3