ssl
– SSL/TLS module¶
This module implements a subset of the corresponding CPython module,
as described below. For more information, refer to the original
CPython documentation: ssl
.
This module provides access to Transport Layer Security (previously and widely known as “Secure Sockets Layer”) encryption and peer authentication facilities for network sockets, both client-side and server-side.
Functions¶
- ssl.wrap_socket(sock, server_side=False, keyfile=None, certfile=None, cert_reqs=CERT_NONE, ca_certs=None, do_handshake=True)¶
Takes a
stream
sock (usually socket.socket instance ofSOCK_STREAM
type), and returns an instance of ssl.SSLSocket, which wraps the underlying stream in an SSL context. Returned object has the usualstream
interface methods likeread()
,write()
, etc. A server-side SSL socket should be created from a normal socket returned fromaccept()
on a non-SSL listening server socket.do_handshake determines whether the handshake is done as part of the
wrap_socket
or whether it is deferred to be done as part of the initial reads or writes (there is nodo_handshake
method as in CPython). For blocking sockets doing the handshake immediately is standard. For non-blocking sockets (i.e. when the sock passed intowrap_socket
is in non-blocking mode) the handshake should generally be deferred because otherwisewrap_socket
blocks until it completes. Note that in AXTLS the handshake can be deferred until the first read or write but it then blocks until completion.
Depending on the underlying module implementation in a particular MicroPython port, some or all keyword arguments above may be not supported.
Warning
Some implementations of ssl
module do NOT validate server certificates,
which makes an SSL connection established prone to man-in-the-middle attacks.
CPython’s wrap_socket
returns an SSLSocket
object which has methods typical
for sockets, such as send
, recv
, etc. MicroPython’s wrap_socket
returns an object more similar to CPython’s SSLObject
which does not have
these socket methods.