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Reputation: 137

Python SSL with PKCS#12 certificates

Is there some way to wrap a socket connection with SSL using python's ssl module in python 2.6 using a pkcs#12 file? The file contains a private key and certificate. I want to use them for the client side of the connection. This post seems to hint that it may be possible but doesn't give a real definitive answer.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 8146

Answers (1)

abbot
abbot

Reputation: 27850

Not with python's ssl module. M2Crypto can't do this also at the moment, nor does python-gnutls. If you've got openssl command available on your client machine, you can re-export that pkcs12 to pem format running the openssl command, and use the results, something like:

openssl pkcs12 -in your_pkcs.p12 -out client_certs.pem -clcerts -nokeys [password options]
openssl pkcs12 -in your_pkcs.p12 -out keys.pem -nocerts [password options]

However PKCS12 is utterly broken by design, while still popular, you should avoid it if possible.

Upvotes: 2

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