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Pure Python Public Key Infrastructure Utilities
https://github.com/jandd/python-pkiutils

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Pure Python Public Key Infrastructure Utilities

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pkiutils - Public Key Infrastructure Utilities
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This is a set of pycrypto_ and pyasn1_ based tools to create, load and verify
public key infrastructure material like:

* RSA keys
* `PKCS#10`_ certificate signing requests

.. * X.509 certificates
.. * X.509 certificate bundles from files or directories

.. _pycrypto: https://www.dlitz.net/software/pycrypto/
.. _pyasn1: http://pyasn1.sourceforge.net/
.. _PKCS#10: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2986

This library can be used to produce RSA key pairs and corresponding certificate signing requests that can be used to request a new SSL certificate for your domain/server.

Installation Methods
====================

1. From source cloned from Github
::
$python setup.py install

2. Using pip or easy_install
::
$pip install pkiutils

Example Usage
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When you need a 3rd party SSL certificate you will be asked for a CSR
(certificate signing request). The following commands will generate your
personal key and the CSR file required and output them to /root

.. code-block:: python

import pkiutils

key = pkiutils.create_rsa_key(2048, keyfile='/root/www.example.com.key')
pkiutils.create_csr(key,
dn="/C=GB/ST=STATENAME/L=LOCAILITY/O=COMPANY/OU=DEPT/CN=www.example.com",
csrfilename='/root/www.example.com.csr')

From here you would provide your certification authority the contents of '/root/www.example.com.csr'

Documentation
=============

Pkiutils is documented using `Sphinx`_, you can read the documentation at
``_.

.. _Sphinx: http://sphinx-doc.org/

License
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The pkiutils package is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.