Welcome
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**wolfSSL Python**, a.k.a. ``wolfssl`` is a Python module
that encapsulates `wolfSSL's SSL/TLS library
<https://wolfssl.com/wolfSSL/Products-wolfssl.html>`_.
The **wolfSSL SSL/TLS library** is a lightweight, portable, C-language-based
library targeted at IoT, embedded, and RTOS environments primarily because of
its size, speed, and feature set. It works seamlessly in desktop, enterprise,
and cloud environments as well.
Prerequisites
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Linux
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During installation via pip this will download the wolfSSL source and compile it, it therefore needs the same prerequisites as the wolfSSL C library. Therefore in Debian / Ubuntu you should do:
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo apt install build-essential
$ sudo apt build-dep libwolfssl-dev
Compiling
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The `setup.py` file covers most things you will need to do to build and install from source. As pre-requisites you will need to install either from your OS repository or pip. You'll also need the Python development package for your Python version:
* `cffi`
* `tox`
* `pytest`
To build a source package run `python setup.py sdist`, to build a wheel package run `python setup.py bdist_wheel`. To test the build run `tox`. The `tox` tests rely on Python 3.9 being installed, if you do not have this version we recommend using `pyenv` to install it.
Installation
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We provide Python wheels (prebuilt binaries) for OSX 64 bits and Linux 64 bits:
.. code-block:: bash
$ pip install wheel
$ pip install wolfssl
To build wolfssl-py from source:
.. code-block:: bash
$ cd wolfssl-py
$ pip install .
The default pip install clones wolfSSL from GitHub. To build wolfssl-py using a
local installation of the native wolfSSL C library, the USE_LOCAL_WOLFSSL
environment variable should be set. USE_LOCAL_WOLFSSL can be set to "1" to use
the default library installation location (/usr/local/lib, /usr/local/include),
or to use a custom location it can be set to the install location of your native
wolfSSL library. For example:
.. code-block:: bash
# Uses default install location
$ USE_LOCAL_WOLFSSL=1 pip install .
# Uses custom install location
$ USE_LOCAL_WOLFSSL=/tmp/install pip install .
Disabling secure renegotiation
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When building wolfssl-py from source secure renegotiation is enabled by
default. To disable secure renegotiation set the environment variable
WOLFSSLPY_DISABLE_SCR during the build process. For example:
.. code-block:: bash
$ WOLFSSLPY_DISABLE_SCR=1 pip install .
Testing
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To run the tox tests in the source code, you'll need ``tox`` and a few other
requirements.
1. Make sure that the testing requirements are installed:
.. code-block:: shell
sudo -H pip install -r requirements/test.txt
2. Run ``make check``:
.. code-block:: console
$ make check
...
_________________________________ summary _________________________________
py3: commands succeeded
congratulations :)
Support
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For support and questions, please email support@wolfssl.com.