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Python library for the Verified Email Protocol

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This is a python client library for the Verified Email Protocol, a.k.a Mozilla’s BrowserID project. See here for details:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Verified_Email_Protocol

And see here for how to integrate it into your website:

https://browserid.org/

To just get something stable and working, it’s currently recommended that you use the browserid.org remote verifier service to check your assertions. Do so like this:

>>> verifier = vep.RemoteVerifier()
>>> data = verifier.verify(BROWSERIDASSERTION, "http://mysite.com")
>>> print data["email"]
"test@example.com"

For improved performance, or if you just want to live on the bleeding edge, you can perform verification locally like so:

>>> verifier = vep.LocalVerifier()
>>> data = verifier.verify(BROWSERIDASSERTION, "http://mysite.com")
>>> print data["email"]
"test@example.com"

As the Verified Email Protocol gets locked down more firmly, using the local verifier will become the preferred method of checking VEP identity assertions.

0.2.1 - 2011-12-16

  • Use M2Crypto for faster DSA operations.

  • DummyVerifier: fix hex formatting for compatability with jwcrypto.

  • DummyVerifier: don’t emit FutureWarning on initialisation.

0.2.0 - 2011-12-07

  • do more validation of the assertion before checking the certificates, to avoid expensive crypto ops for things we know to be invalid.

  • implement DummyVerifier class to aid in testing, both of this package and of packages that are using PyVEP.

  • add exception hierarchy in vep.errors, so that calling code can easily tell why verification failed.

0.1.1 - 2011-12-01

  • add “diresworb.org” to default list of trusted secondaries.

  • implement additional signature algorithms.

  • if “hostname/.well-known/host-meta” gives a 404, fall back to “hostname/pk” to find the public key.

0.1.0 - 2011-11-23

  • initial release.

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