CertificateAuthority

Provides a simple implementation of a Certificate Authority. It uses the PyOpenSSL for bindings to OpenSSL but also includes the ability to callout direct to an openssl command for more fine-grained control over the certificate issuing process if required.

The code has been developed for the Contrail Project, http://contrail-project.eu/

Prerequisites

This has been developed and tested for Python 2.6 and 2.7.

Installation

Installation can be performed using easy_install or pip.

Configuration

Examples are contained in contrail.security.ca.test.