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python-nss - Python bindings for Network Security Services (NSS)

Website: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/security/python-nss
License: MPLv2.0 or GPLv2+ or LGPLv2+
Vendor: Fedora Project
Description:
This package provides Python bindings for Network Security Services
(NSS) and the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR).

NSS is a set of libraries supporting security-enabled client and
server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2
and v3, TLS, PKCS #5, PKCS #7, PKCS #11, PKCS #12, S/MIME, X.509 v3
certificates, and other security standards. Specific NSS
implementations have been FIPS-140 certified.

Packages

python-nss-0.14.0-1.fc19.s390x [226 KiB] Changelog by John Dennis (2013-05-13):
External Changes:
  -----------------

  The primary enhancements in this version is support of certifcate
  validation, OCSP support, and support for the certificate "Authority
  Information Access" extension.

  Enhanced certifcate validation including CA certs can be done via
  Certificate.verify() or Certificate.is_ca_cert(). When cert
  validation fails you can now obtain diagnostic information as to why
  the cert failed to validate. This is encapsulated in the
  CertVerifyLog class which is a iterable collection of
  CertVerifyLogNode objects. Most people will probablby just print the
  string representation of the returned CertVerifyLog object. Cert
  validation logging is handled by the Certificate.verify() method.
  Support has also been added for the various key usage and cert type
  entities which feature prominently during cert validation.


  * Certificate() constructor signature changed from

    Certificate(data=None, der_is_signed=True)

    to

    Certificate(data, certdb=cert_get_default_certdb(), perm=False, nickname=None)

    This change was necessary because all certs should be added to the
    NSS temporary database when they are loaded, but earlier code
    failed to to that. It's is not likely that an previous code was
    failing to pass initialization data or the der_is_signed flag so
    this change should be backwards compatible.

  * Fix bug #922247, PKCS12Decoder.database_import() method. Importing into
    a NSS database would sometimes fail or segfault.

  * Error codes and descriptions were updated from upstream NSPR & NSS.

  * The password callback did not allow for breaking out of a password
    prompting loop, now if None is returned from the password callback
    the password prompting is terminated.

  * nss.nss_shutdown_context now called from InitContext destructor,
    this assures the context is shutdown even if the programmer forgot
    to. It's still best to explicitly shut it down, this is just
    failsafe.

  * Support was added for shutdown callbacks.

  * The following classes were added:
    - nss.CertVerifyLogNode
    - nss.CertVerifyLog
    - error.CertVerifyError (exception)
    - nss.AuthorityInfoAccess
    - nss.AuthorityInfoAccesses


  * The following class methods were added:
    - nss.Certificate.is_ca_cert
    - nss.Certificate.verify
    - nss.Certificate.verify_with_log
    - nss.Certificate.get_cert_chain
    - nss.Certificate.check_ocsp_status
    - nss.PK11Slot.list_certs
    - nss.CertVerifyLogNode.format_lines
    - nss.CertVerifyLog.format_lines
    - nss.CRLDistributionPts.format_lines

  * The following class properties were added:
    - nss.CertVerifyLogNode.certificate
    - nss.CertVerifyLogNode.error
    - nss.CertVerifyLogNode.depth
    - nss.CertVerifyLog.count

  * The following module functions were added:
    - nss.x509_cert_type
    - nss.key_usage_flags
    - nss.list_certs
    - nss.find_certs_from_email_addr
    - nss.find_certs_from_nickname
    - nss.nss_get_version
    - nss.nss_version_check
    - nss.set_shutdown_callback
    - nss.get_use_pkix_for_validation
    - nss.set_use_pkix_for_validation
    - nss.enable_ocsp_checking
    - nss.disable_ocsp_checking
    - nss.set_ocsp_cache_settings
    - nss.set_ocsp_failure_mode
    - nss.set_ocsp_timeout
    - nss.clear_ocsp_cache
    - nss.set_ocsp_default_responder
    - nss.enable_ocsp_default_responder
    - nss.disable_ocsp_default_responder

  * The following files were added:
      src/py_traceback.h
      doc/examples/verify_cert.py
      test/test_misc.py

  * The following constants were added:
    - nss.KU_DIGITAL_SIGNATURE
    - nss.KU_NON_REPUDIATION
    - nss.KU_KEY_ENCIPHERMENT
    - nss.KU_DATA_ENCIPHERMENT
    - nss.KU_KEY_AGREEMENT
    - nss.KU_KEY_CERT_SIGN
    - nss.KU_CRL_SIGN
    - nss.KU_ENCIPHER_ONLY
    - nss.KU_ALL
    - nss.KU_DIGITAL_SIGNATURE_OR_NON_REPUDIATION
    - nss.KU_KEY_AGREEMENT_OR_ENCIPHERMENT
    - nss.KU_NS_GOVT_APPROVED
    - nss.PK11CertListUnique
    - nss.PK11CertListUser
    - nss.PK11CertListRootUnique
    - nss.PK11CertListCA
    - nss.PK11CertListCAUnique
    - nss.PK11CertListUserUnique
    - nss.PK11CertListAll
    - nss.certUsageSSLClient
    - nss.certUsageSSLServer
    - nss.certUsageSSLServerWithStepUp
    - nss.certUsageSSLCA
    - nss.certUsageEmailSigner
    - nss.certUsageEmailRecipient
    - nss.certUsageObjectSigner
    - nss.certUsageUserCertImport
    - nss.certUsageVerifyCA
    - nss.certUsageProtectedObjectSigner
    - nss.certUsageStatusResponder
    - nss.certUsageAnyCA
    - nss.ocspMode_FailureIsVerificationFailure
    - nss.ocspMode_FailureIsNotAVerificationFailure

  * cert_dump.py extended to print NS_CERT_TYPE_EXTENSION

  * cert_usage_flags, nss_init_flags now support optional repr_kind parameter

  Internal Changes:
  -----------------

  * Reimplement exception handling
    - NSPRError is now derived from StandardException instead of
      EnvironmentError. It was never correct to derive from
      EnvironmentError but was difficult to implement a new subclassed
      exception with it's own attributes, using EnvironmentError had
      been expedient.

    - NSPRError now derived from StandardException, provides:
      * errno (numeric error code)
      * strerror (error description associated with error code)
      * error_message (optional detailed message)
      * error_code (alias for errno)
      * error_desc (alias for strerror)

    - CertVerifyError derived from NSPRError, extends with:
      * usages (bitmask of returned usages)
      * log (CertVerifyLog object)

  * Expose error lookup to sibling modules

  * Use macros for bitmask_to_list functions to reduce code
    duplication and centralize logic.

  * Add repr_kind parameter to cert_trust_flags_str()

  * Add support for repr_kind AsEnumName to bitstring table lookup.

  * Add cert_type_bitstr_to_tuple() lookup function

  * Add PRTimeConvert(), used to convert Python time values
    to PRTime, centralizes conversion logic, reduces duplication

  * Add UTF8OrNoneConvert to better handle unicode parameters which
    are optional.

  * Add Certificate_summary_format_lines() utility to generate
    concise certificate identification info for output.

  * Certificate_new_from_CERTCertificate now takes add_reference parameter
    to properly reference count certs, should fix shutdown busy problems.

  * Add print_traceback(), print_cert() debugging support.

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