pyspkac V-0.6

Installation

Install using the standard python setup.py mechanism, e.g.:

python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local

You need pyasn1 and M2Crypto installed for this package to work.

Examples

For a usage example see the doctests in spkac.py and crl.py

Notes for Building

When doing a release the following commands should be issued:

python setup.py clean --all
python setup.py sdist --manifest-only
git status
python setup.py sdist --quiet
git status
python setup.py register
python setup.py sdist upload --sign

The interleaved git status commands work around a bug in older git versions that, when git describe with --dirty option is used, will erroneously detect dirty status when the directory is stat-dirty. Since setup.py sdist will create symlinks this will make the directory stat-dirty.

The –manifest-only will re-create the MANIFEST file even if neither setup.py nor MANIFEST.in have changed.

Changes

Version 0.6: Bug fix

Release now contains missing files from 0.5.

• Add Notes for Building section and document release procedure to avoid missing files in the future

• Remove relative import statements

• Add version import to __init__.py

Version 0.5: Major feature enhancements

Implement Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL)

• Implementation of CRL (with MD5 hash, this probably needs to be fixed later on, don’t know yet if there is a format with a stronger hash)

• factor pem_object

• Fix timezone of default valid_from for generated certificate: We used a timezone correction on a timestamp which is already UTC.

Version 0.4: Bug fix

Fix incompatibility with newer versions of pyasn1.

• BitString serialisation in pyasn1 changed method names, the old inofficial serialisation method with ‘_’ is now official without the ‘_’.

Version 0.3: Bug fix

Import of version.py failed if dependecies were missing. This prevented a pip install from succeeding in case of missing dependencies.

• Guard import in __init__.py to not fail for missing dependencies

Version 0.2: Minor feature additions

Move example from end of spkac.py into a doctest. Change of API: set_email no longer supported. Now extensions can be given as unnamed arguments in the constructor. Named arguments are interpreted as subject parameters for the resulting certificate. All this is shown in the doctest.

• Remove set_email

• Change constructor: Allow extensions as args and subject parameters as keyword args

• Add doctest

• Fix setup.py to include install_requires to auto-install required packages

• Easier import: from pyspkac import SPKAC works now.

Version 0.1: Initial Release